Einladung zum Vortrag im Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik

SysQuake: A highly interactive Matlab-like environment

Prof. Sebastián Dormido Bencomo

Dep. Informática y Automática
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Madrid, Spain

    Zeit: Dienstag · 15. 11. 2005 · 16:00 Uhr
    Ort: Seminarraum 3.241 · Pfaffenwaldring 9 · Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Abstract

The scenario for control education is changing and we must adapt to the new situation. Information technology opens a whole new world of real opportunities. Computers show a great potential to enhance student achievement, but only if they are used appropriately as part of a coherent education approach. Computers do not change in the way books or labs do, they allow us to go deeper and faster. This lecture presents the personal experience of the author in the use of interactive tools in order to make students more active and involved in their own control engineering learning process. Some examples, with different degrees of complexity, have been selected in order to show how we can use the control visualization concept in a new family of interactive tools for control education.

Biographical Information

Prof. Dormido received a degree in physics from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1968 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of the Basque Country in 1971. In 1981, he was appointed Full Professor of Control Engineering at UNED, the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid. He has supervised 25 Ph.D. dissertations and co-authored more than 180 conference and journal papers. Since 2002, he is President of the Spanish Association of Automatic Control, CEA-IFAC. His scientific activity includes various topics from the control engineering field: computer control of industrial processes, robust control, object-oriented modeling of continuous and hybrid systems, as well as control education with special emphasis on distance learning, virtual laboratories, and e-learning.