In your internship (15 ECTS) you apply your know-how in an industry project or at a research institute. Being an ambassador of the MSD Master鈥檚 track, you gain an impression of your professional future. After your internship, you work on your MSD graduation project (45 ECTS). This graduation project revolves around academic or industrial research, enabling you to specialize in the MSD aspects of multidisciplinary design and related analysis.
Graduation project
In your graduation project you also apply the know-how and skills acquired through your course program and internship project to a research project. Research topics can focus on detailed aspects of mechatronics 鈥� for example precision design or opto-mechatronics. Your graduation project comprises two phases. In the first phase of the project, together with your MSD project supervisor, you detail your research questions and methodology including timeline. In the second phase, you perform your research under the supervision of an MSD researcher. This second phase results in a Master鈥檚 thesis. You defend your thesis before a panel of experts and present your findings in public.
Examples of recent MSD graduation projects:
Active vibration isolation system for cryogenic conditions
In this project, a compact active vibration isolation system has been designed and realized for potential application in the Einstein Telescope. The novel mechatronic concept is based on an inertial mass (seismometer) mounted on top of an isolated mass. They both consist of monolithic flexure-based straight guide mechanisms compatible for cryogenic conditions. By using the relative displacement in a feedback loop with a Lorentz actuator, the effective isolation performance can improve to 0.2 Hz, compared to about 7 Hz for an equivalent passive isolation system with similar parameters.
Control system development for a surgical robotic needle placement under patient breathing
In this project, a control system is developed and experimentally validated with a prototype for the purpose of CT-guided surgical procedures under respiratory motion.
System architecture margin model
In the high-tech mechatronics industry customer requirements are typically not fixed and will change over time. For a manufacturer of opto-mechatronic systems in the Brainport region, an MSD student has developed a dependency structure matrix technique to model and visualize the design margins present in the system architecture representing the flexibility to future design changes.
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