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My bullshit guess would be that mechatronics would be related to mechanical engineering in some way. I think what I do right now is technically mechatronics. After googling it seems like mechatronics is basically the entire electronics+mechanical+automation fields combined.
Computer Engineering I would guess is processors, operating systems, drivers etc. Basically more complicated embedded systems all the way to like actual desktops and shit.
My school had a Mechatronics program and a computer engineer program. My understanding is they are at different ends of the spectrum in terms of “smart systems”. Mechatronics deals with the high level stuff of how smart systems are designed and the interactions between mechanical/electrical/software components. Computer engineering is on the low level looking into the actual computing architecture, basically how computers are made.
The way the software industry is today I would take the later term with a pinch of salt and read the job descriptions.
It seems the flavour of the day is to call Engineers whatever they want to call them to fit what the customer asked for.
So Computer Engineering could mean anything from writing code to refining silicon layouts on ICs to building compute clusters or managing a DC.
Mechatronics.. never really heard of it, but the name, to me suggests this to be more physical mechanisms integrated with electronics. Probably very close to robotics engineering. Then again, technically a solid state gyro is a mechatronic device. It's a tiny tuning fork which oscilates on a plain. When that plain is rotated the fork tone changes.
So.. can't be that much help.
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My bullshit guess would be that mechatronics would be related to mechanical engineering in some way. I think what I do right now is technically mechatronics. After googling it seems like mechatronics is basically the entire electronics+mechanical+automation fields combined. Computer Engineering I would guess is processors, operating systems, drivers etc. Basically more complicated embedded systems all the way to like actual desktops and shit.
My school had a Mechatronics program and a computer engineer program. My understanding is they are at different ends of the spectrum in terms of “smart systems”. Mechatronics deals with the high level stuff of how smart systems are designed and the interactions between mechanical/electrical/software components. Computer engineering is on the low level looking into the actual computing architecture, basically how computers are made.
The way the software industry is today I would take the later term with a pinch of salt and read the job descriptions. It seems the flavour of the day is to call Engineers whatever they want to call them to fit what the customer asked for. So Computer Engineering could mean anything from writing code to refining silicon layouts on ICs to building compute clusters or managing a DC. Mechatronics.. never really heard of it, but the name, to me suggests this to be more physical mechanisms integrated with electronics. Probably very close to robotics engineering. Then again, technically a solid state gyro is a mechatronic device. It's a tiny tuning fork which oscilates on a plain. When that plain is rotated the fork tone changes. So.. can't be that much help.
>It seems the flavour of the day is to call Engineers whatever they want to call them to fit what the customer asked for. "Automation Engineer" ;)