Process control kits: A hardware and software resource

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Moor, S Scott ^a   Piergiovanni, Polly R ^b   Metzger, Mathew ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Hands on; Laboratory kits; LEGO RCX; Process control

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY KITS; LEGO RCX; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL EXPERIMENTS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROCESS CONTROL; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33947217997     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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