Curriculum Change for Control Engineering Education in a Mechanical Engineering Undergrad Program

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael E. Vásquez ◽  
Norha L. Posada ◽  
Santiago Rúa ◽  
Carlos A. Zuluaga ◽  
Fabio Castrillón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Systems And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Process

This paper addresses the curriculum change performed for control engineering education in the mechanical engineering (ME) undergraduate program at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), located in Medellín, Colombia. The new curriculum model of the UPB is based on learning, and promotes the achievement of outcome-related course learning objectives during the education process. The faculty of the ME department developed the Human Capabilities and Outcomes Map; such map explicitly shows the connection between general human capabilities that are strengthen through the ME program, the outcomes that are to be achieved, the way this outcomes are assessed, and the courses where the outcomes are addressed in the curriculum. The faculty responsible for the area of design, dynamic systems, and control, gathered during two years and defined educational objectives for all the courses in the area, considering the mechanical engineering program as a whole in order to provide the students with knowledge and skills necessary for their future professional career. As a result, three new courses to address control engineering education in the mechanical engineering curriculum were created: Measurement and Instrumentation, Control Engineering, and Control Engineering Lab. Since the courses have been recently created, faculty will assess the performance within a three-year period in order to quantify the impact of the curriculum change for control engineering education.

Curricular Structure for a Mechanical Engineering Undergrad Program Based on Human Capabilities and Professional Competences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego A. Flórez
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Curricular Design ◽  
Curricular Structure ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Process

This paper addresses the curriculum change in the mechanical engineering (ME) undergraduate program at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), located in Medellin, Colombia. The curriculum model of the UPB is based on develop of Human Capabilities and Professional Competences, through of learning and the achievement of outcome-related course learning objectives during the education process. The faculty of the ME department developed the Human Capabilities and Outcomes Map. This map shows the connection between general human capabilities that are strengthen through the ME program, the competences that are to be achieved, and the courses where the outcomes are developed in the curriculum. The courses organized in four technical areas: Design and Control, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Energy and Thermofluids, and Management. The curricular design includes too the incorporation of four courses with integrator character. These courses are called Modules of Applied Engineering. In them, the student develops projects of engineering of low complexity; These projects involve the integration of topical courses in technical areas and the intentional development of human capacities and transversal competences. The faculty will assess the performance within a two-year period in order to quantify the impact of the curricular proposed.

Special Issue on Education Based on Practical Exercise on Sensing and Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-375
Author(s):  
Shoichiro Fujisawa ◽  
Kazuo Kawada ◽  
Yoshihiro Ohnishi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
And Control ◽  
Measurement And Control

Control engineering and sensing engineering improve productivity and save resources and energy in industry, and they are also deeply related to the solving greater societal, economic, and environmental problems. Control engineering and sensing engineering have become dynamic forces that enrich various phases of life through interdisciplinary or cross-sectional study. Furthermore, in recent years, due to the development of information technology, as symbolized by terms such as “big data” or “AI,” “sensing and control at a higher level” has become possible, premised by big data processing that is faster by orders of magnitude than conventional data processing. All this has increased the importance of control engineering and sensing engineering. In response to the development of the fields of control engineering and sensing engineering associated with the advance of the “information society,” education in these fields has also needed to be enhanced. On the national scale, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will introduce Japanese elementary school computational thinking education into elementary school in fiscal year 2020, and the new Courses of Study for High School Information Education in fiscal year 2022. At the same time, individual companies, educational institutions, etc. have also been experimenting with various forms of education in control engineering and sensing engineering. During these changing times, the most advanced studies related to the development of instruction and evaluation methods for educational materials on control engineering, sensing engineering, and control technology have been collected, and the present special issue was planned. This special issue is a collection of practical papers related to measurement and control education, including one paper on Model-Based Development education in a company and eight papers on education in an educational institution. These eight papers include two on education using a robot contest in a university, one on introducing measurement and control engineering education in a national institute of technology college, three on introducing it in a junior high school, and two on introducing it in an elementary school. We hope that this special issue serves to support the readers’ future efforts in control engineering and sensing engineering education, and we thank the authors and reviewers of the papers.

Systems and control engineering

Resonance ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
A. Rama Kalyan ◽  
J. R. Vengateswaran
Keyword(s):  
Control Engineering ◽  
Systems And Control ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Methodology of Teaching the First Control Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tibor Vámos ◽  
Bars Ruth ◽  
László Keviczky ◽  
Dávid Sík
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Systems And Control ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
And Control

System view, understanding systems and how they are controlled is an important discipline in engineering education. Nowadays considering the ever increasing knowledge, the explosion of information available at the internet, the available visual technics and software tools there is a need to revisit the content and the teaching methodology of the first control course. The IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education (9.4) is circulating a pilot survey addressing these questions. Here we present our experience related to renewing the control course. The topics of the course are given. The main ideas are explained on two levels: hopefully in an understandable way for everyone, and precisely, using mathematical tools. In the lectures some parts of the multilevel e-book, Sysbook are referred, which has been elaborated to present the main principles governing systems and control on different levels. Besides static teaching materials interactive demonstrations developed for Sysbook are also used in the lectures which enhance the effectiveness and also enjoyment of the learning process. At the last part of each lecture the students are active solving problems related to the topic of the lecture. They are motivated by the obtained extra evaluation points. Then the solutions of the problems are discussed. Computer laboratory exercises using MATLAB/SIMULINK software contribute to understanding and applying the analysis and synthesis methods discussed in the lectures. The course is supported by the recently published Springer books: Keviczky et al.: Control Engineering and Control Engineering: MATLAB Exercises. In the content of the control course a new feature is the emphasis of the YOULA parameterization method for controller design already in the first control course and showing that other controller design methods can be considered as its special cases. Nowadays in education a new teaching – learning paradigm is Open Content Development (OCD) which means active participation of the teachers and students creating an up-to-date teaching material. This project runs at the Department of Technical Education at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 2015 supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In the frame of vocational teacher training programs several so-called micro-contents have been developed. Utilizing the experiences of these pilot efforts the Sysbook platform has been connected to the OCD model. In a special surface Sysbook provides several case studies for systems and their control (e.g. driving, energy production and distribution, oil refinery, systems and control in the living organism, etc.). Teachers and students studying systems and control can elaborate new case studies in their areas of interest which means active application of the learned topics. After evaluation these projects can be uploaded in the student area of Sysbook. Summarizing: in the methodology of teaching a basic control course the motivation of the students can be increased by active participation in the learning process, including interactive demonstration of the principles, solving exercises at the end of the lectures and getting immediate feedback, solving analysis and synthesis problems in the computer laboratories, and developing their own case studies for Sysbook. It should be also emphasized that the examples of systems and their control should be chosen mainly from the area of the specialization of the students (electrical or software engineering, chemical engineering, biology, economics, etc.). Also it is important to provide real-time experiments in laboratory work or using distant laboratories. IFAC Repository would be also of great help reaching useful resources.

scholarly journals Numerical analysis to determine the impact of land subsidence on high-speed railway routes in Beijing, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 372 ◽  
pp. 493-497
Author(s):  
C. Ye ◽  
Y. Yang ◽  
F. Tian ◽  
Y. Luo ◽  
Y. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cohesive Soil ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Finite Element Software ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. More than 10 high-speed railway routes with top speeds of 300 km h−1 are expected to be operational from Beijing by the year 2020. However, the safety of these routes is affected by the occurrence of land subsidence. This paper focuses on the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity High-Speed Railway (BTR), the first high-speed railway in China, to analyze the operational safety of high-speed railway routes by analyzing both regional land subsidence and local differential subsidence caused by groundwater drawing. The Beijing construction stratum is mainly composed of cohesive soil, and the BTR has a maximum accumulative subsidence of > 800 mm and a maximum subsidence rate of > 80 mm a−1. In this paper, finite-element software ABAQUS is used to analyze groundwater drawdown and land subsidence caused by local water drawing, and its effect on the bearing capacity of railway bridge pile foundations and the orbit concrete supporting course. The analysis provides a technical basis for developing prevention and control engineering measures against land subsidence so as to guarantee the safe operation of these high-speed railway routes.

scholarly journals Design of System and Control Engineering Education Curriculum Based on the Growth of Line Tracer

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuyuki SHIMADA ◽  
Hirofumi OHTSUKA ◽  
Yoshiichi YAMAMOTO ◽  
Tsutomu MATSUMOTO ◽  
Shigeyasu KAWAJI
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Construction and Evaluation of Talent Training Mode of Engineering Specialty Based on Excellence Engineer Program

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092288
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Hu Xudong ◽  
Diankui Gao ◽  
Lizhi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Process Equipment ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Training Mode ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
And Control ◽  
Education In China

Engineering talent training quality is important for the development of engineering education in China, and the excellence engineer program is an important measure for talent training, and the reform of engineering specialty can be also carried out depending on it; therefore, the construction and evaluation of talent training mode of engineering specialty based on excellent engineer program are studied in this research. First, relevant studies in engineering education are analyzed. Second, the engineering education status in China is discussed. Third, the main problems of engineering education in China are analyzed according to the questionnaire interview data. And the reform measures of the engineering talent training mode for a process equipment and control engineering specialty in a university are analyzed. And then the talent training reform evaluation of this process equipment and control engineering specialty is carried out based on a novel hierarchical analysis method, the evaluation index system is established by questionnaire survey, and optimal membership degree is obtained, which shows the superiority of the excellent engineer program. Finally, several countermeasures and suggestions are put forward to promote the smooth implementation of excellent engineer program.

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