HAMMOND – A recently developed partnership between Purdue University Calumet’s School of Technology and Mitsubishi Electric Automation has produced a new, campus-based mechatronics engineering technology laboratory.
The lab provides an environment of real world equipment designed to enable students to gain knowledge and experience that is useful to employers, said Dean Niaz Latif.
“This is a win-win partnership between industry and the university. Students have the opportunity to learn in a modern automation laboratory, and Mitsubishi customers benefit through access to a training facility at a convenient location,” said Latif.
The new lab features five automation simulation rack unit stations donated by Mitsubishi. Each is valued at $13,000 and includes programmable logic controllers, human machine interfaces and PC-based icon-driven programming tools.
