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Education and Qualification for Control and Automation

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Control is used in most common devices and systems: cell phones, computer hard drives, automobiles, aircrafts, and many more, but it is usually hidden from our view. This deep integration means that the control and automation fields span science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) but lacks oftentimes much needed visibility. To advance the discipline, we must expand our outreach and education efforts. Integrating interdisciplinary research, teaching, learning, and outreach at all levels of education has become the key for success in other areas of knowledge and it is that same level of integration that control, systems, and automation societies should pursue. Organizations such as the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), and the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) have recognized that, to better support interdisciplinary work, control education must move well beyond isolated courses in upper-division STEM curricula to broaden participation and knowledge about controls for all STEM and non-STEM disciplines and to look at the entire educational pipeline starting in K-12.

This chapter focuses on the importance of education in control and automation as well as some of the efforts and approaches being used to introduce controls within the educational pipeline from K-12 to higher education institutions (HEIs). The focus is on innovative approaches to teaching control and automation while engaging students as being major players in the learning process. Student feedback is an essential input in the continuous adaptation of developing teaching techniques and learning new skills, and therefore, teaching itself, we believe, needs to be viewed as a control system.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to recognize the contributions of John Anthony Rossiter from the University of Sheffield in the UK for his contribution to courses in systems and control engineering.

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Juan Diego Velasquez de Bedout

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

  3. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Engineering Fundamentals Department, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

    Matthew A. Verleger

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de Bedout, J.D.V., Pasik-Duncan, B., Verleger, M.A. (2023). Education and Qualification for Control and Automation. In: Nof, S.Y. (eds) Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96729-1_32

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