Control Engineering and Industrial Automation Education using Out of the Box Approaches

Scientific advances in recent decades have provided universal access to a variety of new digital technologies. These technologies are used by the vast majority of today's university students. Therefore, the incorporation of innovative methods and technologies is a must in order to actively engage students in the learning process. In this paper, a selection of techniques that can be considered “outside of the box” are examined in the context of the application of teaching/learning methods in control engineering and industrial automation education.