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Pre-Conference Postgraduate Workshop
Monday, 5th September 2016

The day before the start of the main Mechatronics 2016 conference, a workshop dedicated to postgraduate students will take place. The aim of the workshop is twofold: to provide students with technical information and activities specific to their career stage; and to allow students to meet and build up a future network of peers. The workshop will include technical lectures, hands-on sessions provided by leading companies such as dSpace, MathWorks and National Instruments and collaborative competition activities with a prize to be won for the best research idea.

Preliminary Programme 

09:00 - Welcome and introduction - Dr Stefano Longo
09:15 - Technical talk: "The Scanning Probe Microscope: Nanotechnology Meets Mechatronics” - Professor S. O. Reza Moheimani
10:15 - Coffee break
10:45 - Second talk - Dr Alexander Lenz  - Mechatronics Engineering:  Stuck (un)comfortably between Art, Science and Industry? An Exploration of our Discipline
11:45 - Research collaboration interactive workshop and competition
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Hands-on workshop with dSpace, MathWorks and National Instruments
1630 - Wrap-up and prize giving for best collaboration idea

 Postgraduate Workshop Chair: Dr Stefano Longo, Cranfield University
s.longo@cranfield.ac.uk


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