Development of example-tracing tutors for teaching control systems performance fundamentals

Author

Cala Wilches, Oscar Eduardo ; Grisales Palacio, Victor Hugo

Author_Institution

Grupo de Investig. en Autom., Nat. Univ. of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

290

Lastpage

295

Abstract

Control systems performance is one the major subtopics taught in Automatic Control Systems introductory courses. Example-tracing tutors, a novel type of intelligent tutoring system (ITS), have been created in order to support the learning experience of mechatronics engineering students. A scoring system based on very well supported ITS design guidelines have led to the selection and successful prioritization of a relevant and general set of top ranked problems taken from a large initial problem space that was created by an exhaustive revision on imparted material in previous classes. Experiences on the advanced usage of the authoring tool and discussion about development issues are provided.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control engineering education; educational courses; intelligent tutoring systems; ITS; automatic control systems introductory courses; control systems performance fundamentals teaching; example-tracing tutors; intelligent tutoring system; mechatronics engineering students; scoring system; Artificial intelligence; Control systems; Education; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; Java; Problem-solving; Automatic Control Systems; Example-Tracing tutors; Intelligent tutoring systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2014 Fourth World Congress on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8114-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICT.2014.7077281

Filename

7077281