Mechatronics integrates electronics, controls, and computers in the design of high performance systems. Most modern products – automobiles, household appliances, printers, hard-disk drives, surgical tools, to name a few – embody numerous ‘intelligent’ or ‘smart’ features enabled by mechatronics.

Mechatronics and robotics engineers apply the principles of science to design, manufacture, operate, maintain and model mechatronics systems. Such systems are in turn used in Transportation (aircraft, aerospace, railway, automobiles); Manufacturing (machine tools, manufacturing industries, and process industries); Agriculture (Mechanization); Defence; Energy; HealthCare (Diagnosis, Treatment, Rehabilitation) and Building Services among others. The design and other operations involve not only the hardware but also the systems and processes involved as well as the materials used to actualize such designs.