A liquid-level control training lab including a model-based design for electronics technologists and instrumentation technicians

This work describes the teaching strategies in the control systems field in an engineering technology program. A liquid-level control training station is developed and a model-based design is explained. Instrumentation standards such as actuators and transducers are used in the laboratory. The instrumentation equipment is included in the model-based design. A teaching technique for topics like Laplace and Zeta transforms in control system technology is included in this paper. The absence of courses like differential equations in engineering technology programs is assumed in the technical explanations. Experimental time domain plots are compared with numerical solutions of the models throughout this work.