A Teaching Reform Method for Mechatronics System Engineering

With the rapidly increase of robotic products and their applications in industry and human life, a great challenge for universities to teach undergraduate students the basic knowledge of Mechatronics System Engineering (MSE) is appeared. As a required course for students majoring in machinery, MSE has practicalness and comprehensiveness traits. To improve the capacity of oral English and hands-on experiment for undergraduates, Beihang University carries out a teaching reform for MSE and forms a teaching mode based on bilingualism combining with project teaching method. In class, students communicate with teacher in English and after class, a drilling project based on a flex track drilling robot (FTDR) is provided for them to practice the knowledge they learned in class. After years of exploration, several mechatronics projects are presented by some excellent students in this paper, which confirms the bilingual teaching mode is a successful reform and is deserved to extend in other course gradually.