New Course for Robotics and PLC Control

A new course has been added to the curriculum in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology to take advantage of Rapids grants from the state of Ohio.The course content includes content on robotics, PLC and Vision programming.Then students are directed to combine the three in a complete system.Constraints include structure of the control algorithms as well as how to design the system for maximum advantage of cycle time as well as how to lay out a system using multiple of each of the components.Communication between components is stressed.Results from this first pass in teaching this course will be reviewed.