Towards a Modern Concept for Teaching Control Engineering

A new concept for teaching an introduction course in control engineering is described. The main issue is that the concept is based directly on the students' knowledge from previous courses in math, physics and electronics. This will provid the students with a more direct and clear link between these previous courses and athe introduction course in control theory. As a direct consequence, it is now possible to introduce and use feedback control from the first lecture. The new teaching concept has had a major effect on the exam results. In the two semesters before the changes, only 53% of the students passed the course. In the first two semesters after the changes, 86% of the students passed the course.