The AFEKA – Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering has developed a program in mechatronics studies designed not just for students of mechanical engineering but for every student in any field of engineering, as well as for experimentalists in natural sciences. This program supplies the students with tools that allow them to gain interdisciplinary insights and to carry out interdisciplinary final projects. In this paper we outline this program and give a detailed description of some unique features of the mechatronics laboratory.
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