Laboratory experiments offer one way to introduce more realism in education and play a key role for the acquisition of practical skills, especially in engineering. This paper addresses the development of an equipment to teach fundamentals of industrial process control engineering mainly for undergraduate courses at the University of Extremadura. The laboratory consists of the DELTALAB–COSIMI wastewater treatment plant SP244, which is controlled by a CompactRIO-9014 high-performance real-time embedded controller, a kind of programmable logic controller of National Instruments. Learning objectives and a summary of students activities carried out in the laboratory lessons are given to illustrate the possibilities of use of this equipment for teaching of industrial process control.

实验室实验提供了一种在教育中引入更多现实主义的方法，并且在获得实践技能（尤其是工程学）方面起着关键作用。本文介绍了一种设备的开发，该设备主要在埃斯特雷马杜拉大学的本科课程中教授工业过程控制工程的基础知识。该实验室由DELTALAB–COSIMI废水处理厂SP244组成，该厂由CompactRIO-9014高性能实时嵌入式控制器（一种National Instruments的可编程逻辑控制器）控制。给出的学习目标和学生在实验室课程中进行的活动的摘要说明了使用此设备进行工业过程控制教学的可能性。