Home  General Info    Overview    People    Visitor Info    Links    Impressum  Research    Topics    Publications    Awards  Education    Courses    Thesis Projects    eLearning    Bulletin Board    Student      Exchange    More...  News    Seminars    Events    In the Press    Jobs		Beside the main reseach topics, the IST is also interested in the various forms of eLearning and their influence on modern teaching methods. In different projects, we try to find new ways to improve the quality of academic education.   Educational Games Since 2005, we are using educational games in the course Einführung in die Regelungstechnik (Introduction to automatic control). The project started with the game spaceballRT, which uses Sysquake LE as free available programming platform. The game allows to design different P, PI, and PID controllers for a spaceball that has to follow a given trajectory. In parallel, we developed the Macromedia flash game submarineRT. Here, the students can compare PID and state space controllers. Thereby, they study the fundamental analysis and design tools taught in class. As a first educational game for advanced control courses, we developed spacecraftRT which is used in the course Regelungstechnik II (Automatic Control II). [4], [5]   Online-Exercise Hoo-Controller Design As part of our course Robust Control, students learn to design Hoo-controllers using the closed-loop-shaping-principle. In this online exercise, the students can solve controller design problems for practical examples based on the theoretical content of the course. In particular, the students learn how to chose the right shaping weights to achieve certain performance criteria. Regelungstechnik - online and interactive This project started within the 100-online program at the University of Stuttgart. The goal was to illustrate fundamental topics of control engineering. Because of its webbased design, it can be used both as an interactive part of the lecture and as a selfstudy module that the students can access online. The project was later on extended with new modules and learning material during the self-study online programm, the successor of 100-online. It is now updated regularly according to the demands of the Einführung in die Regelungstechnik (introduction to automatic control) -course. [3] Self-Study Module for Dynamics of Nontechnical Systems In the course Dynamics of Nontechnical Systems, we teach how mathematical and system theoretical methods can be applied to nontechnical applications. In addition to the theoretical content of the lecture, we have developed special computer exercises within the self-study online program. In these exercises, the students are solving and visualising given problems on their own, which helps them to get a better understanding. Notebooks in Education In this project, we have investigated how notebooks and wireless LAN can be used to provide a better learning environment. This approach was part of the national BMBF (Federal Ministery for Education and Research) project "Notebook Universities" and its local realisation "NUSS" (Notebook Universität Stuttgart). [2]   Publications (see Publication Database for details) [6]  U. Münz, C. Böhm, J. Eck, M. Reble, P. Schumm and F. Allgöwer. A Matlab-Based Game for Advanced Control Education. Proc. 8th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Kumamoto, Japan, Oktober 2009. [5]  U. Münz, P. Schumm, and F. Allgöwer. Educational Games in Control. Proc. 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, South Corea, 2008, pp. 12625-12630. [4]  U. Münz, P. Schumm, A. Wiesebrock, and F. Allgöwer. Motivation and Learning Progress through Educational Games. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 54(6):3141-3144, 2007. [3]  T. Schweickhard, P. Schumm, U. Münz, and F. Allgöwer. Integration of E-Learning Modules in Automatic Control Education. Proc. 7th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Madrid, Spain, 2006. [2]  P. Schumm, T. Schweickhardt, E. Bullinger, and F. Allgöwer. Integration und Interaktion: Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Notebook und Internet in der regelungstechnischen Ausbildung. at-Automatisierungstechnik, 2(2):81-89, 2004. [1]  P. Schumm, T. Schweickhardt, E. Bullinger, and F. Allgöwer. Der Einsatz neuer Medien in der regelungstechnischen Ausbildung. Proc. GMA-Kongress 2003, pages 1061-1068. GMA, 2003. Links zu weiteren eLearning-Angeboten im Internet Contact: P. Schumm, U. Münz, M. Reble
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