Abstract
This paper describes a recent, innovative educational approach taken at the University of Colorado for teaching a senior-level undergraduate controls course. By using software written in a graphical programming language (in this case LabVIEWTM) to control the hardware, the students were able to do all the programming themselves. The advantages of this approach over "canned" lab approaches are many. The students feel more responsible for the final product and they are able to apply control techniques learned in class in a more fundamentally creative way.We present some anecdotal evidence from the class taught in Autumn term, 2005, that suggests that students will often use tools from beyond the scope of the class to solve problems in creative and occasionally unexpected ways.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 7th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, ACE 2006 |
Publisher | IFAC Secretariat |
Pages | 404-409 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Edition | PART 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783902661074 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |
Publication series
Name | IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) |
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Number | PART 1 |
Volume | 7 |
ISSN (Print) | 1474-6670 |
Funding
1 This work was supported by National Instruments, the National Instruments Foundation, and the University of Colorado.
Keywords
- Control education
- Education
- Laboratory education
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering