Course construction of automatic control theory under the framework of excellent talent program

Abstract

The course Automatic Control Theory is a fundamental subject for machinery design, manufacturing and automation students of bachelor degree programs in College of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University. The course construction under the framework of Tongji's "Excellent Talent Program" has been proposed revolving around teaching content adjustment, teaching methods improving, bilingual teaching developing, and staff construction. This paper discusses the course content adjustment focused on typical theories and widely used engineering techniques. Teaching methods improving faces to the problem of quite diversified student population in university today and present some active methods such as problem-based teaching to improve the students' ability of independent analysis and solving problems. About 5 years bilingual teaching experience of this course shows that suitable textbook, student-based teaching method and small scale class will benefit the teaching effect. The course Automatic Control Theory is developing to satisfy the demands of advanced engineering education. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.