Integrating the classroom and laboratory: an approach to capstone design

Author

Dorsey, John F. ; Qu, Zhihua ; Magill, John ; Dawson, Darren M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

35

Issue

3

fYear

1992

fDate

8/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

235

Lastpage

239

Abstract

A two-quarter senior-level sequence in control systems is described. The first course covers classical control and is accompanied by a laboratory. A parallel activity is the planning of a capstone design project which students execute as part of the second course. The second course offers students new material on modern control theory plus a capstone design experience that includes implementation and testing of the design project in the laboratory. These capstone design projects provide the basis for new experiments for the laboratory that accompanies the first course

Keywords

control system synthesis; educational courses; laboratory apparatus and techniques; teaching; capstone design; classical control; classroom; control systems; control theory; educational courses; experiments; laboratory; project; students; teaching; Control systems; Control theory; Controllability; Laboratories; Linear systems; Materials testing; Observability; State-space methods; Time domain analysis; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.144652

Filename

144652