Work-in-Progress: A Complementary Training Program in Control and Automation Engineering and its Role in Undergraduate / Master's Program Integration
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Best Diversity Paper
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11
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40533
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https://strategy.asee.org/40533
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317
Paper Authors
Karl Kienitz
Karl Heinz Kienitz graduated as Electronics Engineer from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) in 1983 and earned a Master's Degree, also from ITA, in 1985. In 1990 he completed a doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). For over a decade, he served as an Engineering Officer of the Brazilian Air Force. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Systems and Control, ITA. His work in research, development, and teaching has been interdisciplinary, with a predominance of subjects in the area of Systems and Control. He has been a hôte académique at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), and a Humboldt research fellow at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB).
Rubens Afonso Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
Rubens Junqueira Magalhães Afonso received his PhD (2015) and MSc (2012) degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering and his BSc (2009) degree in Electronic Engineering from Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil. During the year of 2008 he was an intern at the Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering (IFST) in the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany. From 2019 to 2020 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Flight System Dynamics (FSD) in the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a fellow from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Rubens is a professor at the Systems and Control Department of the Electronic Engineering Division of ITA since 2014. His research interests include model predictive control, trajectory planning and collision avoidance.
Wesley Oliveira Institute De Aeronautica Ita
PhD in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (2021) from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), M.Sc. in electrical Engineering (2015) and a B.Eng. in Control and Automation Engineering (2013) from the University of Brasília (UnB). Since 2014, work as a technologist engineer in mechatronics at the Airforce Aerospace Science and Technology Department (DCTA), being part of the Research Council at the Manufacturing Competence Center (CCM) and teaching at the Mechatronics Department of the Mechanical Engineering Division of the Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA). Research interests on (i) modeling and simulation of systems applied to the development of mechatronic systems and (ii) automation and control of industrial systems, with an emphasis on digital signal processing, industrial robotics and computational intelligence applications.
Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro Institute De Aeronautica Ita
Dr. Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro is a Professor in the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in Brazil. He obtained his BS (2008) and MS (2011) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica and PhD (2016) from the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Toulouse, France). He teaches in the areas of flight mechanics and control. His research interests include simulation and control of flexible aerospace vehicles and energy-based modeling and control methods.
Abstract
Federal grants have been supporting many Brazilian engineering master’s students. The availability of these grants is dwindling, so universities on one hand and master’s candidates on the other have been looking for alternatives to obtain master’s degrees with less grant dependence/support. On the technical university side, this led to the emergence of options to start a master’s program in the last semesters of the typical 10-semester undergraduate program. From the university's side and from the student's side it is interesting that such integrated effort is time and resource-efficient. To support this, at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), a new Complementary Training Program (CTP) in Control and Automation Engineering was started in August 2021, serving mainly Mechanical, Electrical, Aeronautical, and Computer Engineering students. The standard goal of CTPs in Brazil is to extend the major undergraduate training in a similar way as a US minor does. Thus, the baseline purpose of the new program is to provide undergraduate students with a complementary education, transversal to engineering courses, which enables them to work as Control and Automation engineers, without the need for training supplementation after graduation. However, by offering a well-designed course choice, this program will also allow for: (a) extending the scope of undergraduate studies, and (b) deepening specific topics that are already part of the undergraduate curriculum. In the scope of the Institute's undergraduate and master’s degree integration initiative, this second particularity (item b) may yield anticipated credits for a master’s program. Specific features of the program may further benefit students aiming at a master’s degree. This paper details the structure of the CTP and the gains expected in terms of incentives for the Institute's Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineering as well as the Electronics and Computer Engineering Master’s Programs.
Kienitz, K., & Afonso, R., & Oliveira, W., & Cardoso-Ribeiro, F. L. (2022, August), Work-in-Progress: A Complementary Training Program in Control and Automation Engineering and its Role in Undergraduate / Master's Program Integration Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40533
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