Comprehensive Teachware for Automatic Control

Abstract Automatic control is often taught simultaneously to students of various engineering disciplines. Since the course contents have to be accessible to all students, a highly interdisciplinary approach to the material is needed. An approach for teaching automatic control integrating several complementary tools is presented in this paper. It is shown how the same control problem can be successively studied during the lecture, through exercises, at computer-aided learning sessions, individually with a CAD package, and finally in the laboratory. Our experience with this form of teaching and its learning effects are also discussed.