Development of interactive learning simulator for process control using matlab simulink
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Date
2018-06
Authors
Mohamad Muhaimin Md Yusof
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Abstract
Teaching process control course to undergraduate chemical engineering can be
very challenging due to difficulty to understand the theory of process control and to
relate the course with the industry application. This study focuses on how adaptation of
training simulator for education purposes, use of pre-simulation and post-simulation
survey to measure the effectiveness of the training simulator. The training simulator was
done to motivate the students to learn the process control and also to enhance interactive
learning in process control. Pre-simulation survey was used to obtain students’ opinions
regarding process control subject. From the analysis of survey, it give an idea on how to
make the teaching of process control become interesting by creating a simulation
program using MATLAB Simulink that works based on real-time. Also in this work, the
developments of simulation of vacuum evaporator using MATLAB Simulink were
validated by compare the result from simulation with literature. Lastly, post-simulation
surveys were done when the training simulator has been finished to test the efficiency of
training simulator. The result from the survey and quiz shows that majority of the
students are able to enhance their understanding on process control subject by using the
training simulator and majority of them able to answer the quiz correctly with mean 4.1
(Standard Deviation, SD = 12.88) and 3.4 (SD = 8.98) respectively for the participants
that have learnt process control and participants that do not learnt process control.