Discussion of "Undergraduate control education: a ME perspective"

Author

Zhu, J.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Louisiana State Univ. Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

2-4 June 1999

Firstpage

987

Abstract

In response to the article "Undergraduate control education: an ME perspective", by Agrawal, this article presents the author\´s view on several key issues in control engineering education, some are pertinent to electrical engineering (EE), some are more general. These issues include: 1) in comparison to mechanical engineering (ME) and other engineering disciplines, what does EE have to offer in control engineering education? and 2) does an undergraduate control curriculum have to start from LTI system theory? The author proposes some radical thoughts about fundamental changes in the infrastructure and pedagogical structure for control engineering education with ramifications to control engineering practices. These suggestions include: 1) seriously considering the advantages and drawbacks of centralized and independent control and systems engineering program, and 2) changing the entry point to control engineering curriculum from LTI to nonlinear system theory.

Keywords

control engineering education; educational courses; mechanical engineering; nonlinear control systems; LTI system; control engineering education; curriculum; electrical engineering; independent control; mechanical engineering; nonlinear system theory; systems engineering; undergraduate course;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4990-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1999.783188

Filename

783188