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Making engineering education relevant to real-world applications and to students' future careers is a challenge engineering educators face every day. The course curriculum needs to cover fundamental concepts and reflect the complexity of industrial systems. In addition, it must equip students with skills in engineering, communication, teamwork and critical thinking. In this issue of our newsletter we explore tools that help professors graduate better engineers:
Visit University of Waterloo to learn what helps Dr. Wang's students to complete real-world mechatronics projects in just one term.
Find out about innovative ways of teaching control concepts that prompt students to develop new approaches to control challenges, while helping them better grasp conventional approaches to engineering research and development.
Learn why control systems in your lab should follow three R's: relevant, realistic and rigorous.
Plus read about the latest improvements to Quanser's control software QUARC that enhance its usability and performance.
Quanser has many tools for education and research in control, robotics and mechatronics. Drop us a line to discuss how we can help you achieve your teaching and research goals in the academic year 2011-2012, and beyond. |
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 Focused on Innovation
Innovative Ways to Teach Control |
 The ability to connect theory to real-world applications, use of contemporary technology and tools, and support of self-directed learning all help motivate students to fully participate in the lab and achieve better learning outcomes. Quanser is testing this approach with the Quanser Driving Simulator, a video game-like model of a car driving on a closed track. Using the simulator, students gain an immediate real-world context for the control topics being covered. They also develop their critical thinking and creative approaches to problem solving.
Read more on our engineering blog and see the driving simulator in action. |
Focused on Teaching
Three R's of Control Systems |
 Modern control systems govern the latest high-performance automobiles, renewable energy plants and countless medical devices. The challenge for engineering educators lies in reflecting these modern realities in the course curriculum, especially in its lab portion. What those educators need are systems described by three R's: providing Relevant learning skills, Realistic reflection of industrial systems' complexity and Rigorous guidance through the conceptual and modelling background of the experiments.
Read how Quanser solutions cover all three R's.
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Focused on QUARC:
New Framework Enhances Usability |
 The recently released version of Quanser's control design software QUARC 2.2 offers engineering educators and researchers many new features. Those working with remote targets will especially benefit from the redesigned Host Peripheral Framework, which allows them to use host devices such as a keyboard, mouse or game controllers with remote targets, even without Simulink running on the host. |
| In Your Own Words |
"QUARC has made our programming faster and more robust. More importantly, it allowed us to move forward quickly by unifying our old and new programming platforms."
Dr. Aman Behal, University of Central Florida, USA
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Graduating Credible Engineers
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Dr. Wang from the University of Waterloo wants to give his students real-life experience with mechatronic systems and graduate credible engineers. Learn how QUARC, Quanser's rapid control prototyping software, helps him with his goal.
For the full story click here. |
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Teach Control with the Help of Virtual Experiments
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Control Systems Engineering by Norman S. Nise is the most widely adopted textbook for core control courses. The sixth edition offers a dynamic new feature: the text is supported by 10 virtual experiments from Quanser, which are powered by LabVIEW.
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