Before I begin, let me start by saying that if your institution is doing project-based learning (or PBL, as we call it in the 'biz'), then you are already ahead of the pack. Most engineering education is still stuck in...
Modernizing engineering education is hard. A big part of the problem is that engineering is a combination of the exciting and sexy world of self-driving cars and landing rockets, and the reality of years of mathematics and intensive software engineering...
A little over a year ago, Quanser made the ambitious decision to create a controls engineering textbook. It was a bit unorthodox for us; we’ve been designing and building hardware experiences for controls students for thirty years, including curriculum and...
So, I hope my last blog post convinced you that pendulums have some serious real-life applications and how they can be used to teach and research important concepts in modelling and control systems. There are different types of pendulum systems...
Back Then... In the late 2000s, there were no iPhones, no YouTube, no Arduinos or Raspberry Pi's, the DotCom bubble was still growing, Google was still a new thing. You had to pay hundreds of dollars for a C compiler,...
This has been an exciting year for Quanser, with groundbreaking projects taking off around the world. However, as the air starts to cool off here in Canada and we start to finalize plans for the engineering projects that will occupy...
