A new mechatronics laboratory for technology integration

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• 作者：Alejandro Velasquez-Lopez…
• 关键词：Collaborative space ; Technology integration ; Academic architecture ; Open laboratory ; Mechatronics ; Technical systems
• 刊名：International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：11
• 期：1
• 页码：115-124
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Engineering, general; Engineering Design; Mechanical Engineering; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Industrial Design;
• 出版者：Springer Paris
• ISSN：1955-2505
• 卷排序：11

文摘

While teams and projects tend to be multi-domain, the infrastructure required to integrate and build prototypes lags behind to allow an efficient interaction and to offer multi-disciplinary facilities. Hence this paper presents an infrastructure approach developed in a Latin American academic context, where the concept of an Engineering Building is explained in order to support the demands of a 3rd Generation University. A deeper emphasis of this article is placed upon the development of a Technology Integration Laboratory in terms of functionality, capacity, adjacencies, furnishing and, physiologic and psicologic support. The layout design is based on the concepts of Mechatronics and Technical Systems while enhancing a teaching–learning-building process. After 5 years of operation the results obtained in terms of prototyping, filed patents and projects with the triad government-industry-academy are discussed. Our experience shows that such hands-on engineering facilities are worth having, especially within a virtual education growing trend, and that openness has influenced an increment of the Intellectual Property results.