{"id":36076,"date":"2021-03-31T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=36076"},"modified":"2021-04-01T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:54:16","slug":"techniques-learned-in-lab-are-used-by-industries-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/techniques-learned-in-lab-are-used-by-industries-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Techniques learned in lab are used by industries worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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College of Engineering and Computer Science Dean Daniel Pack, from left, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chancellor Steve Angle, Chairman of the College of Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board Joe Ferguson and Ahad Nasab, head of the Department of Engineering Management and Technology, cut a ribbon Wednesday, March 31, to officially open the new Mechatronics Lab.<\/p><\/div>\n

In fall semester 2018, five students enrolled when the mechatronics program started at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

Now there are 65 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to get close to 100 this fall,\u201d said Ahad Nasab, head of the Department of Engineering Management and Technology and creator of the mechatronics program.<\/p>\n

Today, the program took a huge step into its future when it opened a new lab filled with equipment now being used in the manufacturing industry worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to show our students the exact technologies being used today and in the near future,\u201d Nasab said.<\/p>\n

Located on the second floor of the Engineering Math and Computer Science building, the lab is a bustling array of stainless-steel and metallic machines. Robotic arms lift tiny plastic pieces, swing around, then drop the pieces neatly into small, square boxes. Nearby machines are a production line that mimics the same job as bigger cousins in factories.<\/p>\n

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, UTC Chancellor Steve Angle described the lab as \u201cincredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me want to go back to school and figure out how to learn all these things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The lab and the mechatronics program are giving students the knowledge they need to succeed after they graduate, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to our campus to put our students on the cutting edge, so they\u2019re ready to go into the workforce with the skills the businesses want,\u201d Angle said.<\/p>\n

The mechatronics lab does that, Nasab said, because the same machines and processes are used across the manufacturing spectrum, from pharmaceuticals to cars, from cosmetics to airplanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny industry\u2014cookies or cars\u2014to us it\u2019s all the same,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what the machine does as long as you know how to control it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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