A Multidisciplinary Control Laboratory

（59）本项目旨在建立一个跨伍斯特理工学院工程系的多学科、以实验室为基础的本科控制课程。该实验室由电气与计算机工程、生物医学工程、机械工程、制造专业和航空航天专业的学生共享。由于仪器的模块化特性带来的灵活性，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鉴和适应了在其他机构成功实施的教学元素。流行的主题包括控制在厄巴纳-香槟大学实施的物理设备，以及在弗吉尼亚理工学院测试的智能结构的控制。一个主要的影响来自D.S. Bernstein的一篇论文，其中提出了在密歇根大学安娜堡分校加强本科生控制教育的重要方面。课程正在重新设计，以纳入使用所需设备的广泛实验室组成部分。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。受控制的物理设备每两年更换一次，由攻读专业资格项目（Major Qualifying Project， MQP）的WPI学生设计。MQP是WPI学位要求，相当于三门课程的工作量，包括书面报告和口头陈述，相当于学士学位论文。项目成果将在项目介绍日上传播，在这一天，即将毕业的高年级学生将向世界倡议社区介绍他们的MQP项目；在当地（内城）K-12学生的年度校园访问期间，WPI已经在鼓励K-12学生从事STEM学科的职业方面建立了领导地位；通过在控制和工程教育会议上的演讲/报告。

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.