Members of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen (UDFE) have won a prize with their presentation at the International Conference on E-Learning in Industrial Electronics that was held in Singapore last October in the framework of the IEEE IECON conference and attracted over a thousand participants. The presentation won 3rd place in the contest of the best presentations. The prestigious recognition was presented to the University of Debrecen a few days ago.
The title of the presentation is Discrete-Time Modelling and Animation with Mechatronics Approach for Control Education. Its authors are Imre Kocsis, Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs of UDFE, Péter Korondi, professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics of UDFE, Róbert Mikuska, lecturer at UDFE, Csaba Budai, Deputy Head of the Department of Mechatronics, Optics, and Mechanical Engineering Informatics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Károly Kis, a master’s student at UDFE.
The prize was awarded by the internationally registered members of the IES TC05 Technical Committee on Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies in Industrial Electronics Society. “The prize shows that there is outstanding activity at the University of Debrecen not only in the field of research but also in education. The international recognition of the colleagues working at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen has also increased thanks to the prize”, said Imre Kocsis, Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs of UDFE, in connection with the news.
Péter Korondi said, “The prize also proves that the world considers the efforts of the Faculty of Engineering to modernize education to be adequate. The point of our concept is to give practical homework that covers multiple university subjects. Thus, one engineering problem is dealt with in seven subjects in total, from Mathematics, through Engineering Design, to Machine Learning. As a result, students will always connect theoretical knowledge with an exact practical problem, which facilitates a deeper understanding of the course material”.
“For example, when we simulate the operation of a shock absorber of a vehicle wheel suspension, there is a description of it in the Mechatronics subject, and students also learn its mathematical background in Mathematics. In the IT subject, they learn to program the problem. In the Control Engineering subject, we demonstrate the algorithms through this example, so students will have something to connect the control algorithm with. When they get to Control Theory, they will already have a simulation program of the system and will only need to add the control algorithm to it”, explained the professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics of UDFE.
Péter Korondi added that two years ago the Faculty of Engineering won the Best Paper Award at the Singapore conference, and this year, they were invited to be the keynote speaker. The professor said that this success series shows that their teaching methods have a good international reputation.
The Singapore conference website is available here. See below for the award-winning presentation in PDF format.
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