A Laboratory For State -Of-The-Art Education Of Electrical And Mechanical Engineering Students in Dynamic Systems and Control

该项目扩展了德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校电气和机械工程学科的动态系统和控制领域。学生的学习将通过以下方式得到加强：将实验室实验纳入目前只讲授的电气工程（EE）控制课程；通过更新现有的机械工程（ME）控制实验室实验。新实验室改编自最初在德克萨斯大学泛美分校实施的控制实验室概念。对原始配方进行了几次更改，从而提高了实验室的功能和成本效益。EE和ME两门控制课程的学生将在本实验中使用最先进的软件和硬件：实践一个基于模型的仿真导向的方法来控制系统的设计和开发；实现基于数字信号处理器（DSP）的控制器，并在教育和工业硬件上物理演示其实现的控制器，如机电执行器，倒立摆和简单的机器人。该项目旨在增加工程领域代表性不足的少数民族学生和毕业生的数量。将对更“令人兴奋”的实验进行实际和/或录像演示，并在万维网上进行传播，以激励较低水平的工程学生，并影响该地区的大学预科学生（其中大多数是西班牙裔）学习工程。最后，该项目为其他学校提供了一个改进的动态系统和控制模型。

This project expands the area of Dynamic Systems and Control in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering disciplines at The University of Texas at El Paso. Student learning is to be enhanced by:1. incorporating laboratory experiments into the present lecture-only Electrical Engineering (EE) Controls course, and 2. by updating the current set of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Controls laboratory experiments. The new laboratory is adapted from a Controls laboratory concept that was originally implemented at The University of Texas - Pan American. Several changes to the original formulation result in an improvement in the laboratory's functional and cost effectiveness. Students in the two (EE and ME) Controls courses will use state-of-the-art software and hardware in this lab to:1. practice a model-based simulation-oriented approach to control systems design and development, and 2. implement Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based controllers and physically demonstrate their implemented controllers on both educational and industrial hardware, such as electromechanical actuators, inverted pendulums and simple robots. The project aims to increase the number of underrepresented minority students and graduates in the field of Engineering. Actual and/or videotape demonstrations of the more 'exciting' experiments as well as dissemination on the World Wide Web will be carried out to motivate lower-level Engineering students and to influence pre-college students in the region (the majority of whom are Hispanic) to study Engineering. Finally, this project serves as an improved Dynamic Systems and Control model for other schools.