Evaluation of a UML-based versus an IEC 61131-3-based software engineering approach for teaching PLC programming

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-335

  Vogel Heuser, Birgit ^a   Obermeier, Martin ^a   Braun, Steven ^a   Sommer, Kerstin ^a   Jobst, Fabian ^b   Schweizer, Karin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of Education Weingarten   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation; cognitive science; engineering education; modeling; object oriented methods; programmable logic devices

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; FUNCTION BLOCK DIAGRAM; MODELING PERFORMANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; PROGRAMMING PERFORMANCE;

APPRENTICES; AUTOMATION; CONTROL; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; LOGIC DEVICES; MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84881372105     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2012.2226035     Document Type: Article

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