Design and monitoring of a micro‐cogeneration system: A wide practice proposed for engineering education

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Education is a key element of reaching sustainability. The incorporation of sustainability into doctoral programs can be promoted using new learning methods through the practices carried out by the PhD students. These methods include learning by doing, blended learning, collaborative learning, and project based learning, all of which are presented in the practical experience described in this article. This study describes the training that students receive in the doctoral program “Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Engineering and Architecture,” which is offered in the Engineering School at the University of Vigo. The study includes an analysis of the facility and its operations, the teaching methods used and the students' perceptions of sustainability's incorporation into the program. In this practice, students worked with an experimental facility that could be controlled and supervised both manually and remotely. Students performed numerous tasks, including studying the main problems related to the combustion of biomass and its impact on sustainable development. On the one hand, students have used different measuring devices to control and monitor facilities, and, on the other hand, they have discussed and analyzed data, thereby improving the work capacity with the facility equipment, team work skill and communication with each other effectively. As a conclusion, students showed sincere interest in development of the practice, and they participated actively in each of its phases. The learning methodology used was found to increase student motivation.

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Designing a holistic process of learning for implementing sustainability: An experience in an engineering doctoral program

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Crespo

Míguez‐Álvarez

et al. 2019

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“…Practical applications impart students with a better understanding of the theoretical concepts that form the basis of engineering [2,3]. It is well known that when teaching the material required for technical degrees, practical experience significantly facilitates retention and understanding [4,5]. When providing education related to technical careers such as engineering, the hands‐on use of new learning methodologies “learning by doing” provides students with practical experiences and enables them to use real facilities .…”

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“…Presently, most of the process is automated and uses the LabVIEW and other software to monitor the facilities, thus enabling the values of the facilities’ main parameters during the process to be determined in real time . Lately, this software has been used in numerous educational applications . Matijević et al used LabVIEW to control a thermal process via the Internet .…”

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A practice for engineering students based on the control and monitoring an experimental biomass combustor using labview

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Patiño

Míguez

et al. 2017

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The methods delineated herein enable students to acquire new knowledge and competences at a high academic level in an independent manner and to demonstrate competence in the current concepts and theories governing energy flows, heat transfer, and energy conversions. These methods have been used in the Energy Thermal Master class that is offered in the Engineering School at the University of Vigo. The study presents an innovative learning method in which two new pedagogical concepts are combined, “learning by doing” and “blended learning,” implying a modernization of the classical learning methods. Using the methodology described below, students are able to operate a biomass experimental as well as use numerous measuring devices to obtain the combustion parameters, which are the latest commercial technology. Furthermore, by using LabVIEW programming, students are able to realize the importance of automation in the facilities and to create a code that is responsible for the control, supervision and monitoring of the system. In addition to the purely experimental aspect, students must analyze the data acquired by LabVIEW, apply their theoretical knowledge and exchange data with other groups, improving their teamwork skills. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 25:392–403, 2017; View this article online at http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

“…Sahin et al designed and developed an Educational Desktop Robot R 3 D to be used for haptics, teleoperation, and redundancy control studies. Crespo et al developed a system responsible for the control, supervision, and monitoring of the system using the programming software LabVIEW. And Shiakolas et al used a real‐time digital control environment with a HIL magnetic levitation (maglev) device for modeling and controls education.…”

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Development of an educational interactive hardware‐in‐the‐loop missile guidance system simulator

Chen

Liu

et al. 2017

This paper presents a hardware‐in‐the‐loop (HIL) simulator, named HIL‐GSS, which aims to help the students of aerospace engineering learn control and missile guidance theories effectively by using interactive instrumentation. Electromechanical components and interactive panels are illustrated. Two case‐based studies are presented to show the advantages that HIL‐GSS offers to engineering education. Steady‐state tracking errors of the PID controller based on the HIL‐GSS are around zero. The final miss distance in the real‐time HIL TV guidance engagement simulation is 0.2376 m. Those results show the reliability of the proposed HIL simulator. In addition, the students' average response to survey questions is 4.22 (1–5 grade scale), which indicates that students strongly agree or agree that HIL‐GSS is an effective educational tool.