Diploma in Mechatronics & Robotics (S73) | Singapore Polytechnic

Develop critical and analytical thinking skills, along with the ability to present your point of view with credible and relevant evidence. Enhance your knowledge and appreciation of local and global issues covered in the 17 SDGs, with a focus on the former.

Leverage digital communication to engage, inspire and impact stakeholders diligently. Learn about responsible Digital Citizenship and how you can create engaging and impactful messages through various digital platforms and tools.

Find out what goes into a healthy and productive team where ideas, insights, and responsibilities are shared meaningfully. Sharpen your interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively in a digital environment.

Acquire the skills needed to write in clear and concise English to effectively communicate an intended message to your target audience. Apply these skills when writing for specific contexts, such as scenarios related to the SDGs.

Develop data fluency skills such as formulating questions, processing and analysing data to articulate numerical and graphical summaries. Build a simple data dashboard to generate insights and support a solution for a chosen SDG.

Develop data visualisation skills and apply narrative elements and persuasive delivery techniques to communicate data effectively. Learn to craft compelling narratives, based on hard facts and data, to call stakeholders into taking action to tackle the SDGs.

Appreciate the use of both creative and computational thinking skills to solve a SDG-related problem. Apply focused and diffuse thinking , brainstorming techniques, and the four pillars of computational thinking to a chosen SDG.

Introduces students to the knowledge, understanding and design techniques necessary to enable them to design simple combinational circuits using commercial SSI and MSI integrated circuits. Additional topics covered include introduction to simple sequential logic circuits such as flipflops and mono-stables

This module covers the fundamental concepts of electricity. Understanding and application of electrical phenomena are further enhanced using circuit simulation on worked examples and tutorial problems and via hands-on sessions. Topics covered include scientific notation, engineering notation, metric prefixes, basic elements of an electrical circuit, definitions of energy and power, power sources, measuring instruments, DC and AC concepts, simple series and parallel networks, electromagnetism, inductor, inductance, transformers, capacitor and capacitance, characteristics of inductor and capacitor in DC, Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, Current and Voltage Divider Rules and Superposition Theorem.

Promotes interest in engineering by introducing inter-disciplinary engineering systems and manufacturing processes. The Design Thinking process is used to generate ideas and basic workshop machine tools are used for fabrication.

Introduces the basic concepts of engineering mechanics, namely units and dimensions, equilibrium conditions, friction, kinematics and Newton’s laws of motion.

Introduces the use of computer-aided drafting (CAD) software to prepare mechanical engineering drawings. Topics include blue print reading, orthographic projection, sectioning, assembly drawing and basic solid modelling.

IIntroduces the basic properties and applications of common engineering materials such as steels, aluminium, copper, plastics and elastomers, by covering the testing of the properties, concepts of stress and strain, effect of chemical composition and microstructure on properties and applications, heat treatments and materials processing. This module provides the foundation in the selection of materials in engineering design and fabrication.

Introduces the fundamentals of thermodynamics, namely heat, work, perfect gas laws and the 1st law of thermodynamics. Use of steam tables, basics of pressure and flow rate in fluids, and the mass conservation law are also covered.

This module equips students with basic mathematical skills and knowledge in Algebra and Trigonometry to enable them to understand and solve engineering problems encountered in the course of studies. It also serves as a foundation for subsequent mathematics modules.

This module equips students with the necessary mathematical knowledge and skills to solve problems encountered in their course of study. Among the topics covered are Determinants and Matrices, Complex Numbers and Calculus.

Teaches students the methodology of good program development. The C++ language will be used to write structured programs according to accepted programming practices. Topics covered include simple data type, input/output, control and loop structures, functions and arrays. Programming and hands-on training in the computer laboratories will be emphasized.

Get a head start in your career with the necessary skill sets, knowledge and tools to create your very own personal brand. Learn effective strategies to set yourself apart from the competition, and put it to good use and create awareness about the SDGs.

Work in multi-disciplinary groups to apply design thinking methods, backed by research and qualitative data, to tackle local sustainable issues mapped to the SDGs. Tap into knowledge and skills learnt in CCC modules to create innovative prototypes for real-life issues faced by local communities.

Builds on basic material covered earlier with advanced topics such as adders, multiplexers/ demultiplexers, decoders/ encoders, counters and shift registers and some application examples of these circuits.

Extends the basic concepts onto other electrical and electronic devices. Topics covered include: Semiconductor physics, semiconductor devices such as diodes, special diodes and bipolar transistors, transducers such as thermistors, and application of operational amplifiers, complex numbers and concepts of phasors, phasor angle, phasor diagrams, reactances, impedances, susceptances and admittances. Upon completion, this module consolidates students’ foundation of the electrical and electronic engineering.

Provides knowledge of computer-aided machining in milling and turning, including process planning techniques, machine coding and operational instructions. Training includes producing precision components.

This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to design and construct a simple Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) that integrates the mechanical, electrical, electronics and programming into a working product. In the process of designing, building and fabricating the product, students will integrate knowledge of mechanical system design, computer aided design (CAD), basic electrical and electronics learnt in other modules. Various aspects of personal and interpersonal skills such as teamwork, communications, as well as managing learning are systematically infused in carrying out the design-fabricate project.

Continues from Mechanics I. Teaches how basic solid mechanics is applied to solving engineering problems. The fundamentals of machine components are included.

Provides further knowledge on thermodynamics and fluid mechanics with particular applications in air compressors, gas and vapour cycles.

This module provides students with a fundamental knowledge of automated control operations relevant to the local manufacturing industries. Topics covered include pneumatics, relay control system, programmable logic controller, actuators and sensors.

The module is designed to provide students with further knowledge in mathematics and analytical skills to solve engineering problems encountered in their studies. Among the topics covered are Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations, Laplace Transforms and Fourier Series.

This module aims to provide students with an introduction to statistics and data analytics. The topics in statistics include descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and estimation. The topics in data analytics include a brief overview of data mining, cluster analysis, decision tree classifier, and simple and multiple linear regression. Software tools will be used throughout for hands-on exercises.

Please refer to Elective Modules Framework for more information.

Provides students with an understanding of the basic concepts of control theory in both time domain and frequency domain. Topics to be covered include systems characteristics, modelling, transient and frequency response analysis, s-plane analysis, modes of control and system stability analysis.

This semester long internship module aims to provide students with work experience to a relevant industrial sector and with opportunities to relate what is taught in the classroom to actual working environments. The internship module creates a valuable opportunity for students to learn and contribute to the participating organisations. This would also prepare them to be work-ready by acquiring knowledge on current industrial practices and by sharpening their skills.

Provides students with an opportunity to work in small groups to apply the knowledge and experience gained in their foundation stages to conceive, design, fabricate, test and commission a project. Students will have the chance to work with the industry on real-world projects.

Develops a basic understanding of material strength in the design of machine elements and structures. The module supports the design stage of the final-year project.

Provides fundamental concepts and examples to understand the operation and capabilities of programmable logic controllers as an important tool for factory automation. Simple control strategies using ladder diagram are implemented.

The aim of this module is to impart to students the fundamental knowledge and applications of industrial collaborative robotics which has seen an increasing demand in many fields of engineering requiring intelligence and automation control. The students will learn the fundamental knowledge and applications of the industrial collaborative robot through robot safety and overview, basic operation, software overview and programming of basic movements and tasks. The students will then apply the knowledge and skills to program and control the robot to perform several processes in an assigned task.

Provides an appreciation of the safety and risk management inherent in resorts and mega buildings. The Workplace Safety & Health Act, related statutory legislations, risk assessment and hazards analysis are covered.

The aim of this module is to impart to students the fundamental knowledge and applications of industrial mobile robotics which has seen an increasing demand in many fields of engineering requiring mobility and automation control. The students will learn the fundamental knowledge and applications of the industrial mobile robot through robot safety and overview, basic operation, software overview and programming of basic movements and tasks. The students will then apply the knowledge and skills to program and control the mobile robot to perform several processes in an assigned task.

Please refer to Elective Modules Framework for more information.