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industry, and government. As a result, many engineering schools have revised their curricula in order to
offer the relevant interdisciplinary courses such as Electromechanical Systems and Mechatronics. The
basis of mechatronics is fundamental theory and engineering practice. The attempts to introduce mecha-
tronics have been only partially successful due to the absence of a long-term strategy. Therefore, coor-
dinated efforts are sought. Most engineering curricula provide a single elective course to introduce
mechatronics to electrical, computer, mechanical, and aerospace engineering students. Due to the lack
of time, it is impossible to comprehensively cover the material and thoroughly emphasize the cross-
disciplinary nature of mechatronics in one introductory course. As a result, this undergraduate or dual-
level course might not adequately serve the students’ professional needs and goals, and does not satisfy
growing academia, industrial, and government demands. A set of core mechatronic courses should be
integrated into the engineering curriculum, and laboratory- and project-oriented courses should be
developed to teach and demonstrate advanced hardware and software with application to complex
electromechanical systems. The relevance of fundamental theory, applied results, and experiments is very
important and must be emphasized. The great power and versatility of mechatronics, not to mention
the prime importance of the results it approaches in all areas of engineering, make it worthwhile for all
engineers to be acquainted with the basic theory and engineering practice. There is no end to the
application of mechatronics and to the further contribution to this interdisciplinary concept. We have just
skimmed the surface of mechatronics application to advanced electromechanical systems. New trends will
be researched and applied in the near future because mechatronics is an engineering–science–technology
frontier. For example, novel phenomena and operating principles in NEMS and MEMS can be devised,
studied, analyzed, and verified using nanomechatronics and nanoelectromechanics.

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