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System view, understanding systems and how they are controlled, is an important discipline in engineering education. Nowadays considering the ever-increasing knowledge, the explosion of information, the available visual technics and software tools, and the requirement for online distance education, there is a need to revisit the content and the teaching methodology of the basic control course. Here we present our experience in renewing the basic control course. The topics of the course are given. The lectures are available electronically and can be used also in online teaching. The main ideas are explained on two levels: hopefully in an understandable way for everyone and precisely, using mathematical tools. In the lectures, some parts of the multilevel e-book, SYSBOOK, are referred, which has been developed to present the main principles on different levels, for everyone, for the students, and partly for researchers. Besides static teaching materials, some interactive demonstrations can also be used in the lectures contributing to the enjoyment of the learning process. During computer laboratory exercises using MATLAB/SIMULINK software, the students apply the analysis and synthesis methods discussed in the lectures. In the content of the control course, a new feature is the emphasis of the YOULA parameterization method for controller design showing that other methods can be considered as its special cases. Nowadays in education a new teaching-learning paradigm is Open Content Development (OCD) which means active participation of the teachers and students creating an up-to-date teaching material. Utilizing the experiences of these pilot efforts, the SYSBOOK platform has been connected to the OCD model providing the possibility for the students to develop their own control case studies. Besides it is also important to execute real-time experiments in laboratory work or using distant laboratories.
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Keviczky, L. et al. (2021). Innovative Methods of Teaching the Basic Control Course. In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Tinetti, F.G., Tran, QN. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_17
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