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Volume 46
March 2012
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Students want to make the world a better place.  At Quanser, we develop learning experiences to prepare students to do exactly that.  For over 20 years Quanser has focused on educational solutions that motivate students to understand theory better. This month's issue of eNEWS provides several examples of that.

Read how Cornell professor Anthony Ingraffea "shook up" his students and got them excited about pursuing careers in civil engineering.

Learn about a global student competition that challenges engineering students to help teach sustainable engineering. 

Watch a short video on how Quanser and National Instruments  are helping undergraduate students understand control concepts. 

See how Professor Stephen Mascaro helped students learn complex robotic concepts capable of being applied to commercial robots.

Motivating students gets easier when they see theory come to life through hands-on experience and tools. Please tell us how you are motivating your students. Videos are welcome. 

Sincerely, 

 

Zuzana Fabusova, eNEWS Editor

resAre Your Students Up for a Quanser Challenge?

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Improving engineering education by providing students with rich, hands-on learning experiences is a fundamental principle of Quanser.  It applies to everything we do, including sponsoring student competitions. Our newest sponsored competition is the Quanser Challenge. It asks engineering students to create a bold, new experiment to help teach sustainable engineering. The registration deadline is April 1, 2012. Winners go to the World Engineering Education Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October! 

Tell your students about the Quanser Challenge. 

TeachBring DC Motor Control Concepts To Life

megan of NI

For undergraduate students the concepts may be tough, but teaching them doesn't have to be. In this 5-minute video tutorial, National Instruments (NI) engineer Megan demonstrates how to design a controller to control the speed of a DC motor.  All it takes is a very effective teaching tool from Quanser and NI - the Quanser DC Motor Plug-In Board for the NI ELVIS and LabVIEW control design software and Simulation with LabVIEW Mathscript RT. Watch Megan's monitor as she models a DC motor, designs a closed-loop PI controller, tunes the controller in simulation, and implements the controller with a DC motor.

Find out more about DC motor control teaching made easy. 
IndTeaching Students to Control a Real Robot
mascarolab Dr. Stephen Mascaro of the University of Utah wanted to teach both robotic control fundamentals and complex concepts on the same robotic device. He worked with Quanser to create a 2 DOF Serial Robot for his control classes, and had real-world applications in mind. He shared three videos from his labs to show how his students learned control, master-slave teleoperation and multi-robot interaction.   

 

In Your Own Words

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"Quanser's rotary control workstations allow my students to learn control theory easily and also learn how to implement theory in a real-world system."

Dr. Xue Dingyu, Northeastern University, China   

 

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FeatureCornell University: 

Shake, Rattle and Roll to Graduation   

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Hands-on experience with a Quanser Shake Table brought earthquake science to life at Cornell University. As a result, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea's class gained a deeper understanding of structural dynamics and was even more motivated to graduate.

   

 
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