Cracow, Poland

Mechatronic Engineering

Inżynieria mechatroniczna

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Mechatronic Engineering at AGH

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor's - engineer on the university website:
www.international.agh.edu.pl/en/studies/education-offer-bachelor-studies
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⇑Why study Mechatronic Engineering at AGH?

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Why study it:

Mechatronic Engineering at AGH University of Krakow is a first-cycle engineering programme taught in English by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics. It suits students who want an interdisciplinary background in mechanics, control, electronics and computing, and who plan to design, build or run mechatronic systems.

Programme: from mechanics to robotics

The curriculum moves through three layers:

  • basic courses such as mathematics and physics
  • major courses including mechanics, control theory, computer science and electronics
  • speciality courses in computer aided engineering, virtual prototyping, modern control and the basics of robotics
  • methods and tools for the analysis, synthesis and integration of mechatronic systems
  • laboratory and project classes where you build practical engineering skills

Languages: an engineering degree in English

The whole programme is taught in English, so alongside technical mechanics, automation and microprocessor systems you also develop your language skills – and learn to communicate with engineers from other fields while solving complex practical problems.

Qualifications: ABET accreditation

Mechatronic Engineering at both Bachelor and Master level has received ABET accreditation. Its stated educational objectives range from progressing to Master's studies to working collaboratively in multidisciplinary environments and committing to lifelong learning.

After graduation: design offices, R&D or a Master's

Graduates are prepared to work in interdisciplinary teams that design, manufacture or use mechatronic systems – in design units and design offices focused on mechanical or mechatronic systems, in research and development institutions, and in companies that make or use mechatronic devices. The programme also aims to prepare you for experimentation and testing of mechanical, mechatronic and control systems, in industry or academia.

You can continue at Master's level – the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics runs a second-cycle Mechatronic Engineering programme – or at other faculties and universities in Poland or abroad.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at rekrutacja.agh.edu.pl.

Bachelor's - engineer on the university website:
www.international.agh.edu.pl/en/studies/education-offer-bachelor-studies

⇑Test: Check whether Mechatronic Engineering is the right major for you!

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Find Out If Mechatronic Engineering Is the Right Major for You!

1. Do you enjoy combining mechanical systems with electronics and software to build smart devices?

2. Are you interested in programming embedded systems, microcontrollers, or control logic?

3. Do you like working with sensors and actuators to monitor and influence physical processes?

4. Are you comfortable integrating different engineering domains (mechanical, electrical, software) into coherent systems?

5. Do you enjoy troubleshooting complex systems when components interact in unexpected ways?

6. Are you excited by robotics, automation, or building autonomous/mechanized solutions?

7. Do you enjoy learning how feedback control works to stabilize or optimize a system?

8. Are you motivated by creating devices that interact with the physical world intelligently?

9. Do you enjoy working on projects that require both creative design and technical precision?

10. Are you willing to continuously adapt and learn new tools across mechanics, electronics, and software?

Bachelor's - engineer on the university website:
www.international.agh.edu.pl/en/studies/education-offer-bachelor-studies

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Engineering
These experiences are not 'religious' in the ordinary sense. They are natural, and can be studied naturally. They are not 'ineffable' in the sense the sense of incommunicable by language. Maslow also came to believe that they are far commoner than one might expect, that many people tend to suppress them, to ignore them, and certain people seem actually afraid of them, as if they were somehow feminine, illogical, dangerous. 'One sees such attitudes more often in engineers, in mathematicians, in analytic philosophers, in book keepers and accountants, and generally in obsessional people'.
The peak experience tends to be a kind of bubbling-over of delight, a moment of pure happiness. 'For instance, a young mother scurrying around her kitchen and getting breakfast for her husband and young children. The sun was streaming in, the children clean and nicely dressed, were chattering as they ate. The husband was casually playing with the children: but as she looked at them she was suddenly so overwhelmed with their beauty and her great love for them, and her feeling of good fortune, that she went into a peak experience . . .
Colin Wilson in New Pathways In Psychology, p. 17
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A key characteristic of the engineering culture is that the individual engineer’s commitment is to technical challenge rather than to a given company. There is no intrinsic loyalty to an employer as such. An employer is good only for providing the sandbox in which to play. If there is no challenge or if resources fail to be provided, the engineer will seek employment elsewhere. In the engineering culture, people, organization, and bureaucracy are constraints to be overcome. In the ideal organization everything is automated so that people cannot screw it up. There is a joke that says it all. A plant is being managed by one man and one dog. It is the job of the man to feed the dog, and it is the job of the dog to keep the man from touching the equipment. Or, as two Boeing engineers were overheard to say during a landing at Seattle, “What a waste it is to have those people in the cockpit when the plane could land itself perfectly well.” Just as there is no loyalty to an employer, there is no loyalty to the customer. As we will see later, if trade-offs had to be made between building the next generation of “fun” computers and meeting the needs of “dumb” customers who wanted turnkey products, the engineers at DEC always opted for technological advancement and paid attention only to those customers who provided a technical challenge.
Edgar H. Schein (2010). Dec Is Dead, Long Live Dec: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equiment Corporation. p. 60
Engineering
Engineers should press forward with development to meet the diversified needs of people
Harold Chestnut (1981) attributed in: Dr. Harold Chestnut: 1981 Honda Prize Laureate in: Honda Prize Ecotechnology Quote
Bachelor's - engineer on the university website:
www.international.agh.edu.pl/en/studies/education-offer-bachelor-studies

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