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The article deals with a control engineering educational program based on a consequent set of experiments on laboratory bench called “Twin Rotor MIMO System”. The program structure realizes the project-based learning approach in accordance with modern problems of engineering educational process. Provided by lectures, the necessary fundamentals in control theory such as differential equations analysis, state observers, or feedback control methods are augmented by a set of personal experimental research projects. The proposed course is based on a set of problems needed to be resolved and each of them one by another supposes to increase the practical value of work without losing the theoretical content. Tracking metrics for key learning are presented and separated into two sets. It is shown that the presented educational approach used in the course leads to a number of benefits among which are a simplification of the fundamentals learning, improving acquisition and systematization of knowledge, and focus on the most important theoretical tasks without losing the practical relevance.
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Vrazhevsky, S., Kremlev, A., Margun, A. (2019). An Engineering Educational Program Using “Twin Rotor MIMO System” Laboratory Platform. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 144. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8260-4_21
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