Advances in Control Education (August 28-30 2013)
ACE2013 - the 10th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education
- will provide an innovative forum at which researchers and practitioners
in control education will present their latest research, results and ideas.
ACE2013 also aims to spread new knowledge and alternative approaches
in education.
International cooperation,
especially between academia and industry, in control engineering education will
be emphasized.
The official language of the symposium will be English.
Special themes and topics
We would like to encourage special sessions and papers in the areas of independent learning, web laboratories, the use of the internet in learning and teaching and sharing learning and teaching resources.
Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Teaching aids for control engineering, Virtual and remote labs, Open educational resources, E-learning in control engineering, Tele-operation, Independent learning, Centralized Internet repository for control education, Virtual reality in control education, Continuing control education in industry, University-industry co-operation in control engineering education, International programs in control engineering education, Teacher and student exchange programs between control labs, Cultural and social issues of control education, Challenges for control engineering curricula, Internet-based control systems materials, Embedded systems, Control education using laboratory equipment.
Conference flyer (PDF format)
Venue and programme
The symposium will be hosted at The University of Sheffield, August 28th -30th, 2013 which is cited right next to the city centre of Sheffield. The programme will be a usual mix of invited and contributed papers, posters, plenary speakers, laboratory exhibitions and social activities.

