Teaching Revolution Exploration and Practice of the Principles of Automatic Control Course

Principle of automatic control is a professional basic course with strong theory and engineering practice. It is widely applied in so many engineering disciplines such as aerospace, agriculture, transportation, electrical and mechanical manufacturing. The main task of this course is to train students' ability on the analysis of the control system design, engineering practice ability and innovation ability based on control theory knowledge learning. The main features are: content abstract, theoretical, close contact with math's, wide knowledge, practical engineering, and fast renewal development[2]. It is these characteristics that cause students feel difficult to learn, teachers hard to teach, difficult to guarantee the teaching effect relying on the traditional teaching method and means. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the automatic control principle course and the current problems existing in the teaching process to explore the reform of classroom teaching and experiment teaching ideas and measures so as to fully arouse the enthusiasm of both teachers and students.