Integrating lifelong learning into a feedback controls course

Lifelong learning is being featured as a detailed application of the technical content of a senior feedback controls course required for electrical, computer and mechanical engineering students. Related course objectives are: (1) to motivate engineering students before graduation to pursue lifelong learning throughout their careers; and (2) to use feedback control concepts to enhance the importance of lifelong learning. Results are reported for a class of 46 students during the spring 1999 semester at the University of Kansas, USA.