Being recognized for the excellence of its programs is important
to universities – and to the students who are deciding which university to
enroll at. Every year U.S. News and
World Report magazine draws the attention of thousands of educators as they
assess which engineering program to recommend to the young women and men destined
to form the next generation of global engineers.
Looking back at the engineering programs that
U.S. News has spotlighted in 2012, we are pleased to note that Quanser controls
technology can be found in the teaching and/or research labs of a great many of
them, including the five undergraduate programs ranked at the top.
The Top Five U.S. engineering undergraduate programs for 2012, by U.S. News
and World Report. (Please note the two
ties):
3.
California
Institute of Technology (tied for #3)
4.
University
of California, Berkeley (tied for #3)
5.
Georgia
Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) (tied for #5)
6.
University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (tied for #5)
Stanford University: Quanser’s QUARC
software was employed at Stanford University’s Aerospace Robotics Lab, where
students were able to run a QUARC controller on computers that were over 10
years old and get closed loop sampling rates in the kilohertz. Using QUARC,
they were able to design the controller in MATLAB®/Simulink® on a
regular Windows® PC and an older computer running the QNX operating system.
This has many benefits for real-time and reliable control and experimentation.
University of
California, Berkeley: Dr. Masayoshi Tomizuka
and his students are using a Quanser 3 DOF Gyroscope with added high accuracy encoders to develop controllers
/estimators for Inertial Navigation Systems (INS).
Georgia Institute of Technology: Sterling Skinner of Georgia
Tech’s Mechanical Engineering
Department supervises a large lab that features over 20 Quanser Rotary Servo workstations, with 10 of those stations using Quanser QNX QUARC
targets.
University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Dr. Soo Jo Chung of
the Department
of Aerospace Engineering is using a Quanser 3 DOF Helicopter in his research
laboratory. To see more about what
Dr. Chung is working on, click here.
Quanser salutes these educational institutions for their leadership
in controls teaching and research. For
the complete list of U.S. News and World Report-ranked engineering schools, click
here.
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