A Multidisciplinary Control Laboratory

工程-其他（59）该项目正在伍斯特理工学院建立一个跨工程系的多学科、基于实验室的本科控制课程。该实验室由电气和计算机工程，生物医学工程，机械工程，制造计划和航空航天计划的学生共享。由于其灵活性源于仪器的模块化性质，包括这里要求的四个工作站，多学科控制/机电一体化实验室借用和适应已在其他机构成功实施的教学元素。流行的主题包括在厄巴纳-香槟大学实施的控制物理设备，以及在弗吉尼亚理工学院测试的智能结构控制。一个主要的影响来自D.S.伯恩斯坦在那里的重要方面，加强本科控制教育在密歇根大学安阿伯奠定了。该课程正在重新设计，以纳入使用所需设备的广泛实验室组件。这使学生能够熟练掌握最先进的实时数据采集和处理仪器，数字控制实施和振动测试。控制的物理设备每两年更换一次，由WPI学生设计，他们正在进行专业资格项目（MQP）。MQP是WPI学位的要求，相当于三门课程的工作量，导致书面报告和口头陈述，相当于学士学位论文，项目结果在项目介绍日公布，即将毕业的高年级学生向WPI社区介绍他们的MQP项目;在当地的年度校园访问期间，（内城）K-12学生，WPI已经在鼓励K-12学生追求STEM学科的职业方面建立了领导地位;通过控制和工程教育会议上的演讲/会议记录。

Engineering - Other (59)This project is establishing a multidisciplinary, laboratory based undergraduate control curriculum across engineering departments at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The lab is being shared by students in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Program and Aerospace Program. Due to its flexibility stemming from the modular nature of the instrumentation comprising the four work stations requested here, the multidisciplinary controls/mechatronics laboratory borrows and adapts pedagogical elements that have been successfully implemented at other institutions. Prevalent themes include controlling physical devices as was implemented at the University of Urbana-Champaign, and controlling of smart structures as tested at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A major influence comes from a paper by D.S. Bernstein where the important aspects of enhancing undergraduate control education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor were laid out. The curriculum is being redesigned to incorporate an extensive laboratory component using the requested equipment. This allows students to become proficient in state-of-the-art real-time data acquisition and processing instrumentation, digital control implementation, and vibration testing. The physical devices that are controlled change every two years and are designed by WPI students pursuing their Major Qualifying Project (MQP). The MQP is a WPI degree requirement that is equivalent to a three course workload that leads to a written report and oral presentation and which is equivalent to a Bachelor's thesis.Project results are being disseminated at the Project Presentation Day in which graduating seniors present their MQP projects to the WPI community; during the annual campus visits of local (inner city) K-12 students which WPI already has established a leadership in encouraging K-12 students to pursue careers in STEM disciplines; through presentations/proceedings at control and engineering education conferences.