International Collaboration In An Undergraduate Control Systems Course

This paper presents the results of a collaborative group project involving teams of students from the University of Detroit Mercy in the United States and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil that took place during the summer of 2009. This assignment was given as part of existing undergraduate control systems courses offered at the participating universities. As these are existing courses that are currently required in the respective curricula, students were not required to take an extra course and a range of students were reached. Furthermore, the entire project was performed at a distance employing readily available technologies such that additional costs were not a concern.