Flipping the Courses on Automatic Control: Why and How

The paper deals with changes in the courses on Automatic control enforced by the overall trends in preparation, motivation and study skills of the students entering the university. Since they just cope with some delay the changes of the overall society and may be characterized as a transition from a teacher centered teaching to a student centered learning, they have already been discussed in numerous papers. The central point of the presented paper relates to the moment that the changes in the learning environment, delivery and support have to be boosted by flipping the learning content composition and organization, as well. Thus, the flipped courses on Automatic control have the role to help the students by a rich experimenting on physical plant models under Matlab/Simulink support to understand role of control, mathematics, physics, Matlab/Simulink programming and other theoretical and practical subjects in solving quasi-authentic problems from the automotive area.