This article offers insights on teaching practical improvements to control methods to engineers already practicing in the field. Virtually all these engineers have taken an introductory control class (perhaps many years ago) and have some experience with circuitry, programming, and actual control implementations. We argue that the lessons that have the most impact on these engineers are those that tie theoretical insight to methods that they can adapt almost immediately to make their jobs easier. We discuss both the environment of typical practicing engineers and some of the lessons that can immediately make them more effective. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2019 International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Advances in Control Engineering Conference [1] . This expanded version draws heavily on discussions at the author’s Practical Methods for Real World Control Systems workshops and the companion book [2] .

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关于进一步推进执业工程师控制教育的思考【聚焦教育】

本文提供了有关向已经在该领域实践的工程师教授控制方法的实际改进的见解。事实上，所有这些工程师都参加过介绍性控制课程（可能很多年前），并且在电路、编程和实际控制实施方面具有一定的经验。我们认为，对这些工程师影响最大的课程是那些将理论洞察力与他们几乎可以立即适应的方法联系起来以简化工作的课程。我们讨论了典型的执业工程师的环境和一些可以立即使他们更有效的经验教训。本文的早期版本发表于 2019 年国际自动控制联合会 (IFAC) 控制工程进展会议[1] . 这个扩展版本在很大程度上借鉴了作者的实际控制系统实用方法研讨会和配套书籍中的讨论[2] .