Leila Madrone is a mechatronics engineer at Otherlab, a start-up company in San Francisco. She leads a team that is designing heliostats—mechanisms used in concentrating solar power systems.
Many CAP apprentices in Alamance County are training for careers in Mechatronics. Mechatronics is a mixture of mechanical, technical, and computer engineering.
Mechatronics blends principles of design and engineering to create the most innovative, economical, appropriate and elegant solutions to engineering problems.