Development and integration of Web-based software tutorials for an undergraduate curriculum: control tutorials for MATLAB

Author

Tilbury, Dawn ; Messner, William

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng. & Appl. Mech., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

5-8 Nov 1997

Firstpage

1070

Abstract

The rapid development of the World Wide Web (WWW) has provided unprecedented opportunities for educators to reach audiences of students and colleagues around the world. This paper discusses the development, use, distribution, and integration into a curriculum of a set of Web-based software tutorials for undergraduate courses in automatic controls. The purpose of the tutorials is to teach students how to use MATLAB, a popular computation and visualization software package, to analyze and design automatic control systems. The tutorials combine explanatory text with sample MATLAB commands and illustrative plots and graphics, are highly interconnected, and are easily accessible over the WWW

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; control system analysis computing; control system synthesis; educational courses; MATLAB; Web-based software tutorials; World Wide Web; automatic control systems analysis; automatic control systems design; automatic controls; computation software package; control tutorial; graphics; undergraduate curriculum; visualization software package; Automatic control; Education; Graphics; MATLAB; Software packages; Software tools; Tutorial; Visualization; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4086-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1997.636040

Filename

636040