Leva, Alberto (Politecnico di Milano)

Teaching Control Amid a Digital Revolution: Some Challenges and a Simple Suggestion

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Challenges for Control Engineering Curricula" (FrAT1), Friday, June 20, 2025, 10:10−10:20, Room F09

14th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, June 17-21, 2025, Budapest, Hungary

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on June 20, 2025

Abstract

In recent years, the rapid and pervasive digitalisation of systems has fundamentally transformed the way they are designed, built, and controlled. This shift has introduced new concepts, methodologies, and skills into control engineering, many of which were outside its traditional scope but are now essential for professionals as the boundaries between control and other disciplines increasingly blur. As a result, to maintain student attraction for systems and control, it is advisable for education to evolve in a view to addressing the nowadays changing landscape. In this paper, we discuss some of the entailed challenges and formulate a simple suggestion.