>>11602383>Someone here studying/studied mechatronics, and want to share?I'm not a mechatronic myself but I took many mechatronic courses during my master in computer engineering.
>Where do a mechatronic engineer work?All of them (with some exceptions) works in the industry fields, 90% of the work is to develope a project (100% of the times a machine that do something) and program some PLC or something like that, most of the times is something related to (machine has to do this with actuators X and sensors Y), by there you check the possibilities, do some stability analysis, Nyquist, frequency/step response, and so on...
>How is the pay?I'm in Italy, I cannot speak for other countries, but I saw everything here, from 1500€ for a 4.0GPA master degree (I swear) to more than 4000€.
The pay is more about how retarded are you to chose the company.
I can say for sure that in Europe you won't have problem into finding jobs, when got my bachelor I have been called by like 50 companies from Italy France and Switzerland. (And no, I did put my CV nowhere).
>Do you enjoy it?My knowledge about mechatronic is pretty related to electronic and system theory, I love the first, hate the second, but I see my mechatronics schoolmate loving both, so I guess it's just me.
>I'm not really practical or good with my hands, but I guess this is something I will learn/get better at while in college.This is not a problem but don't expect to learn that at the university, you will have to build some basic circuits (amplfiers, filters, ADC and so on) during some labs, learn how to use a bench multimeter, oscilloscope and function generator.
If you are talking about "building things" you will learn nothing about this, no one will teach you how to solder or something like that.
However I must to say that I've been taught to design PCBs and 3D drawing, so I guess you could always make them build in China (like I do).
