Controls education on the WWW: tutorials for MATLAB and SIMULINK

Author

Tilbury, Dawn ; Luntz, Jonathan ; Messner, William

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

21-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

1304

Abstract

Engineering in general and controls in particular have been dramatically changed by the development of fast computers and computation, simulation, and visualization software packages which run on them. An impediment to even wider use of these powerful tools is that they are frequently difficult to learn to use. The authors have developed an effective paradigm for using the World Wide Web as an education aid for tutoring students on the use of software tools. The approach provides the information that students need when and where they need it-at the computer. This paper describes the application of this method to teaching the use of MATLAB for controls and recent extensions for teaching the use of SIMULINK

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; data visualisation; digital simulation; software packages; MATLAB; SIMULINK; WWW; World Wide Web; computation software packages; controls education; simulation software packages; visualization software packages; Computational modeling; Computer science education; Computer simulation; Control engineering education; MATLAB; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Tutorial; Visualization; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4530-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1998.703625

Filename

703625