Using a model railroad to teach digital process control

  • Authors:
  • John W. McCormick

  • Affiliations:
  • State Univ. of New York, Plattsburgh

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '88 Proceedings of the nineteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

This paper describes experiences with a course designed to introduce undergraduate students to the design and implementation of real-time systems for the monitoring and control of laboratory and industrial processes. A model railroad is suggested as an inexpensive process to control. A variety of laboratory exercises involving such a model railroad are presented.