Title :
Concretizing control education
Author :
Bernstein, Dennis S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Aerosp. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Education must be both conceptual and experiential. Abstract concepts are elegant and powerful, but learning is always enhanced by direct experience. The author believes that control education can benefit by becoming more specific. Control theory and much of control education is highly conceptual. In fact, control engineering tends to be the least tangible of all subjects in the engineering curriculum. In the hope of tipping the balance from the conceptual to the experiential, the author offers several suggestions
Keywords :
control engineering education; abstract concepts; conceptual education; control education; direct experience; experiential education; Aerodynamics; Circuits; Concrete; Control engineering; Control engineering education; Control theory; Feedback; Friction; Power engineering and energy; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4990-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.1999.783610
