TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing undergraduate education in control engineering
AU - Rojas-Moreno, Arturo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper discusses the content of two basic courses in control engineering: Feedback Control Systems and Process Control with their associated Lab (laboratory) sessions. Such undergraduate level courses are lectured at the Electronic and Mechatronic Engineering Department (EMED) of UTEC (Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Peru). The Lab sessions are performed in the Control Systems as well as in the Process Automation Labs. The structured experiments with their rubrics are carried out by the students after covering the corresponding theory classes. This methodology permits students to bridge the gap between theory and practice by means of hands-on and open (reconfigurable and reprogrammable) plants. An open plant allows the renewal of experiments. On the other hand, UTEC employs a methodology to engage undergraduate students to perform research. Several papers published in indexed international conferences ware based on various experiments performed by the students in the Lab sessions.
AB - This paper discusses the content of two basic courses in control engineering: Feedback Control Systems and Process Control with their associated Lab (laboratory) sessions. Such undergraduate level courses are lectured at the Electronic and Mechatronic Engineering Department (EMED) of UTEC (Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Peru). The Lab sessions are performed in the Control Systems as well as in the Process Automation Labs. The structured experiments with their rubrics are carried out by the students after covering the corresponding theory classes. This methodology permits students to bridge the gap between theory and practice by means of hands-on and open (reconfigurable and reprogrammable) plants. An open plant allows the renewal of experiments. On the other hand, UTEC employs a methodology to engage undergraduate students to perform research. Several papers published in indexed international conferences ware based on various experiments performed by the students in the Lab sessions.
KW - Bridging the gap methodology
KW - Control systems Lab
KW - Feedback control systems course
KW - Hands-on methodology
KW - Lab session rubric
KW - Open plant
KW - Process automation Lab
KW - Process control course
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U2 - 10.18687/LACCEI2019.1.1.38
DO - 10.18687/LACCEI2019.1.1.38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073624877
T3 - Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
BT - 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology
PB - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
T2 - 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology, LACCEI 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 26 July 2019
ER -