A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mechatronics

Abstract

The emergence of mechatronics acts as a proof that the research and education of the future must be modeled by complex and non-separable lines of force. Consequently, its imperative to elaborate a new approach to mechatronics, from the perspective of transdisciplinary methodology, whose purpose is the understanding of the world through the unity of knowledge. Mechatronics, through its integrative, synergic character, is an open field that transcends the limits of a single discipline. The identity of mechatronics is a trans-thematic one, founded on the thematic concept of complexity. In this context, the paper suggests the hexagonal model for integral mechatronic education using the lupascian logic. According to this model, mechatronics is symbolically positioned in the region of maximum resistance, corresponding to a triple T-state, state in which that which is contradictory does not oppose anymore, because of the conciliating role of the principle of the included middle