We are seeking volunteers who have experience teaching and/or developing control systems laboratories. The purpose of this study is to determine a consensus of the most important learning outcomes, concepts, and equipment for students to experience in a control systems laboratory. In order to achieve a consensus the survey will be administered in four rounds between June and August 2015. Each round will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

The data will be used to develop a web tool to evaluate and compare low-cost hardware for use in control systems laboratories. All participants who complete all four rounds will be provided the data and access to the web tool upon completion of the development.

The survey is now complete. Thank you to all of the partcipants. Stay tuned for the results.

Questions about this research should be directed to Dr. Geoffrey Herman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Questions about your rights as a research participant should be directed to the University of Illinois campus Institutional Review Board (phone 217-333-2670, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Thank you so much for your time and for your participation!

Dr. Geoffrey Herman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education
Dr. R.S. Sreenivas, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Dr. Michael Loui, Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rebecca Reck, Graduate Student, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign