Teaching Reform and Practice of “<i>The Principle of Automatic Control</i>” as a First-Class Undergraduate Course

Abstract

The Principle of Automatic Control course is the core course of the automation majors. In accordance with the key points of developing the first-class undergraduate course, the teaching team has carried out timely teaching reform to enhance the advanced, innovative and challenging features of the course. A teaching mode combining online and offline activities has been developed to reflect the “student-oriented and teacher-led” teaching philosophy. It adopts the teaching method of problem-based learning. Questions are used throughout the online and offline processes. Teachers should assign questions, and students should discuss the questions and learn cooperatively. In this way, it can help students to better understand the learning content, flexibly apply the knowledge they have learned, and enhance their ability to identify, analyze and solve problems. At the same time, teachers should grasp the main channel of classroom teaching, actively explore the ideological and political education of the course, and put equal emphasis on knowledge transfer and value leadership. In this way, teachers can work hard to foster professional and technical talents that meet the needs of society in the context of the new engineering discipline.