A Virtual Future for the Controls Lab

Quanser knows that teaching controls is hard. It’s even harder to give students meaningful, engaging, and exciting controls lab experiences. These days, engineering educators are faced with a whole new challenge. The motivation for developing the QLabs Virtual Experiments was to ease that challenge, bringing quality hardware-centric learning experiences out of the lab to virtual space.Staying within the traditional lab paradigm, QLabs Virtual Experiments afford you much more flexibility in your selection of experiments. This, in turn, allows you to expand the breadth of application areas your students experience. Students can also take part in distributed experiments, comparing and contrasting the response of the physical hardware with their own observations, making lectures more engaging, and tutorials more effective