Ways To Improve Effectiveness of Teaching Controls

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Volume 55

Spring 2013

Dear ,

No two teaching professors are exactly alike. No two controls labs are completely alike either. That's why there are many alternative ways professors can choose to achieve their shared goal: giving engineering students a superior controls education. In this issue, we highlight a number of paths professors can take to teach their students more effectively:

adding the new QUBE-Servo to a lab allows for a cost-effective way to teach introductory controls
building up LabVIEW-based controls lab gives students a highly effective learning experience
selecting right tools so your students can concentrate on control topics, not on coding
encompassing your students' progress from undergraduate years, through to graduate studies or working in industry.

Your perspective on controls teaching is as unique as you are. If Quanser solutions help improve your teaching effectiveness, tell us about it. Videos are welcome.

Sincerely,

Zuzana Fabusova, eNEWS Editor

A Control Lab That Improves Your Teaching Effectiveness

Teaching professors who use the NI LabVIEW graphical programming platform have a great opportunity to expand their control labs. The reason: a total of 18 hands-on Quanser rotary and linear motion workstations are now integrated with LabVIEW and related NI peripheral devices. This makes it easier to cover a wider range of control topics, expose students to engaging, hands-on experiments, and bring control theory to life.

See how you can teach LQR optimization in a LabVIEW- based control lab.

teach Professors Pinpoint Key Advantages QUARC Gives Their Students

Ask professors why QUARC rapid control prototyping software is so effective in helping students understand control design and their answers highlight all the major benefits it brings to the learning process. QUARC is easy for students to use and is designed to save them great amounts of development time. Working in conjunction with Simulink, it allows students to draw a controller, generate code, and run it in real time, all without digital signal processing, or without writing a single line of code.

Read what other advantages QUARC gives students.

How QNET Trainers Help You Prepare Students For The Real World

Two aspects of Quanser's QNET trainers are key to appreciating their long term value as a teaching tool for your students: one, the key control topics they help you teach; and two, the benefit of exposing your students to fundamental control principles using industry-relevant LabVIEW graphical programming software.

See what key control topics you can teach with QNET Trainers.

In Your Own Words

"The Quanser team understands that the academic research atmosphere is not "one size fits all." They provide high quality products for real-time control, and they are responsive to our needs when we need to push the capabilities of their products."

Dr. Marcia O'Malley, Associate Professor,

Rice University, USA

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In This Issue

QUBE-Servo: A New Way To Teach Introductory Controls

⧁ A Control Lab That Improves Your Teaching Effectiveness

⧁ Professors Pinpoit Key Advantages QUARC Gives Their Students

⧁ How QNET Trainers Help You Prepare Students For The Real World

QUBE-Servo:

A New Way To Teach Introductory Controls

Integrated, compact, and remarkably cost-effective, the soon-to-be-released QUBE-Servo helps professors teach control principles, such as first-principle derivation, model variation, optimal LQR control design and much more.