Looking back on a decade of teaching process control engineering to computer science students

Abstract

This paper summarizes the work that had to be done to set up and tune a course dedicated to the wide area of automation and process control engineering. The first part of the paper deals with the lecture and its computer aided teaching material. Apart from annual tuning based on last year's experience it was primarily the practical that significantly changed over the years. Hence the second part of the paper focuses on former topics of the practical, points out the intentions of the actual one and ends with principal issues characterizing the practical of the future for our course called Prozessautomatisierung.