TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence-based control engineering education
T2 - Evaluating the LCSD simulation tool
AU - Marin, Loreto
AU - VARGAS OYARZUN, HECTOR RENATO
AU - Heradio, Ruben
AU - de la Torre, Luis
AU - Diaz, Jose Manuel
AU - Dormido, Sebastian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The advance in control engineering education needs well-designed studies that validate what methods and tools work best. This paper addresses the lack of empirical evidence supporting innovations in control engineering education by proposing a methodology that works at different abstraction levels. Hence, innovations’ impact on students’ performance can be statistically analyzed either globally or locally by examining competencies or fine-grained indicators, respectively. The article reports the application of the methodology for evaluating an interactive simulation tool, named LCSD, on 101 students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. According to the experimental results, LCSD is an effective free alternative to enhance the student’s skills on control system analysis for our automatic control course. Also, some improvements have been identified for future LCSD versions.
AB - The advance in control engineering education needs well-designed studies that validate what methods and tools work best. This paper addresses the lack of empirical evidence supporting innovations in control engineering education by proposing a methodology that works at different abstraction levels. Hence, innovations’ impact on students’ performance can be statistically analyzed either globally or locally by examining competencies or fine-grained indicators, respectively. The article reports the application of the methodology for evaluating an interactive simulation tool, named LCSD, on 101 students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. According to the experimental results, LCSD is an effective free alternative to enhance the student’s skills on control system analysis for our automatic control course. Also, some improvements have been identified for future LCSD versions.
KW - Control engineering education
KW - Evidence-based education
KW - Interactive tools
KW - Simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85093933959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3023910
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3023910
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093933959
VL - 8
SP - 170183
EP - 170194
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 09195850
ER -