Switches, breakers and controls cover a wall in the industrial maintenance lab that Tony Sandutch oversees at the Penn State Hazleton campus. Students work with that equipment through a nine-month ...

An electronics' manufacturer needs to develop a laptop drive in less than a year. Student engineers want to build an autonomous convoy. A system integrator must design a servo system to machine ...

Four of the college’s eight Sun Corp. automation trainers used in its MECH-54 course. As manufacturing operations increased in the U.S. for the first time in years, a significant part of the ...

What does a mechanical engineer need to know about control theory? More than he did ten years ago. The same is true for electrical engineers and their understanding of mechanical dynamics. More and ...

Mechatronics, a high-end technology incorporating electronics, machine learning and mechanical engineering, has been in vogue, of late. With growing prominence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ...

I am primarily targeting analog novices in this upcoming tutorial series because I see a great many designers in our industry who have expertise in the more digital, processor and software side of ...