Abstract:

The formation of high qualified engineers in the area of design and development of industrial information and control systems is highly long and hard task. It needs long studying of many different sciences, extensive experimental work and obtaining of real hands-on experience. The system simulation is another specific process which is much more complex than both system and its controller design. Education on simulation is very specific and much influenced by the simulation environment and approaches.

Under a TEMPUS project a course about simulators and simulation for industrial systems is under preparation.

The aim of the paper is to present the ideas and organization of such a course based on hardware-in-the-loop simulators for three types of objects and how they form an integral and consistent study.

The main organization of the all course parts – lectures, laboratories, projects and individual work is based on the so-called problem-based learning approach.

The specifics of education in the area of simulators is presented and the way the students go through systems having increasing complexity is presented.

Keywords:

Comprehensive education, system simulation, problem-based learning, teaching course project.