All participants are invited.

Wednesday from 8:00 to 8:50

. Round Table on Infrastructure for Mechatronics Education Organized by I. Ebert-Uphoff, J. Gardner, W. Murray and R. Perez, USA Speakers: Edward Carryer, Stanford University, USA; Kevin Craig, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA; John Gardner, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Tai-Ran Hsu, San Jose State University, USA; Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan, USA; Ismet Erkmen, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Abstract The purpose of this round table is to stimulate a conference-wide discussion of the needs to be addressed to facilitate an effective mechatronics education and to inform industry of these needs. Issues to be addressed include the infrastructure in terms of textbooks, software and hardware components. Experts from academia who are very active in mechatronics education will serve as speakers. Numerous exhibitors have been invited to attend. Questions to be discussed by the speakers and the audience include: What tools would make it easier to implement a Mechatronics curriculum? What kinds of books, software or hardware have you been looking for, but did not find? What would you put as #1 on your wish-list?