All of us here at Quanser know that teaching controls is hard. It's even harder to give students meaningful, engaging, and exciting controls lab experiences. These days, engineering educators are faced with a whole new challenge: teaching in the era...
Shaqeeb wanted to be an engineer as long as he can remember. Like many current and aspiring engineers, he joined the FIRST Robotics team at his high school and later became a mentor for the team. But when he started...
While many universities are just starting to transition and adjust to the world of online teaching, McMaster University is a step ahead. Spearheaded by Dr. Ishwar Puri, Dean of Engineering at McMaster, the new first-year engineering program was “designed from...
We’ve been talking a lot over the last few weeks about the Quanser Interactive Labs platform and, more specifically, QLabs Controls, which is available as a free trial until June 30, 2020. With QLabs Controls, we’ve been working like crazy...
Over the last almost 30 years, the Rotary Servo (SRV02) system, with all its add-on modules, was and still is very popular. But we knew there was also a demand for a more compact, integrated solution to teach control systems...
In this blog post, I will discuss the recent changes made to ABET’s Criterion 3, which defines student outcomes. I will also propose ways of how you could go about transitioning existing Quanser ABET-aligned curriculum from the old (a)-(k) student...
