Advances in Control Education 1994

Section Headings and Selected Papers: Plenary Paper. Controls, risk and educational responsibility: the ethical/professional links (M.J. Rabins, C.E. Harris Jr). Video Competition. A demonstration rig for control systems based on the ball-and-beam with vision feedback (J. Whelan, J.V. Ringwood). Development of the JSME CAI system (Y. Okada et al.). Teaching Control Theory. How to teach LQG (V. Kucera). Control education in Japan with special focus of teaching exact model matching and adaptive control (K. Ichikawa). Teaching stability and robust stability (M. Mansour). How to Integrate Non-Technical Issues into Control Education. Environmental engineering education as an issue of control education (R. van der Vorst). Efficient Ways to Teach Control Theory. Use and misuse of computer for control education (R. Perret, Z. Binder). Computer Aided Education I. Educational simulation software in Oberon (A.H. Glattfelder et al.). Continuing Control Education in Industry. A strategy for industry's continuing education needs (M.K. Masten). Control Engineering Solutions: An Experimental Approach. Integral action and anti wind-up (B. Sulc). Multivariable process control (N. Mort). Curriculum. Development process for controls engineering education (J. Vian). Computer Aided Education II. Toward CAI in control engineering (R. Fujiwara, Y. Tsuboi). Control Laboratory Experiments III. Systems engineering laboratory experiments at Washington University (H. Mukai, D. Elliott). Continuing Education. The impact of a tempus project on active learning in automatic control (B. Zupancic et al.). Control Laboratory Experiments I. AIDA: a practical training laboratory (S. Gentil et al.). Teaching Aids for Control Theory. A transparent environment for experimental validation of basic control theory (L. Del Re et al.). Control Laboratory Experiments II. Mode localization by state feedback control quasi-perturbation of a multi-degree-of-freedom system (S.W. Faw, M.J. Rabbins). Author index.