Mechatronics Engineering is an emerging field of engineering which primarily aims at building and designing smart devices and automation of processes (production, etc) through the application of mechanical, electronic, material, computer hardware and software, and hydraulic engineering knowledge.
A few universities has started offering the course since the NUC designed the curriculum and introduced the it to Nigeria in 2010. schools like FUNAAB, FUOYE, ABUA, PolyIbadan etc are at the forefront
Osun state government is also building a mechatronics engineering college which has been named in honor of late Bola Ige and is soon to be completed.
The prospect for this engineering field in Nigeria is brightening as one of the major industry of its application - the automobile industry is taking a firm root in the country as Nigeria has started producing Cars.
Yours faithfully, is a mechatronics engineering aspirant in one of the federal universities and wants to know what nairalanders in the labor market, especially those into engineering think about this field of study.

Gr8 course. Also offered in Futminna.

Sounds rather like robotics

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tpiander:
Sounds rather like robotics

Yea... Robortics is also incorporated into the course.

Can someone please compare it with Mechanical or electronic engineering?

It is not a new feild per say, maybe because it has just started to be offered as course in Nigerian university(talk of backwardness)
I did something on this feild in 2010, I later dropped it for something else.
It's a combination of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science. All about automation of processes. It's being used in some of our factories for productions.
A lucrative feild I must confess.
Although, I haven't heard of of any known friend working in such feild.

iyisco2001:
It is not a new feild per say, maybe because it has just started to be offered as course in Nigerian university(talk of backwardness)
I did something on this feild in 2010, I later dropped it for something else.
It's a combination of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science. All about automation of processes. It's being used in some of our factories for productions.
A lucrative feild I must confess.
Although, I haven't heard of of any known friend working in such feild.

so, you dropped it for what other field

philiancoop:

so, you dropped it for what other field

Facility maintenance and major also in procurement.
I was introduced to mechatronics during my industrial work experience at Prototype engineering development institute and with some practical experience. Quiet fascinating. I thought of have a post graduate in the feild, but the Nigerian education system wasn't gonna offer such chance, main reason why I took a swap.