Controls education on the WWW: tutorials for MATLAB and SIMULINK

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