Pioneering spirit from student days strengthens control engineering lab
On behalf of the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences (THWS), Prof. Dr. Abid Ali sincerely thanks Mr. Johannes Glaser for donating the experimental setup “ball balance” to the Control Engineering Laboratory.
More than ten years ago, then-electrical engineering student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering showed extraordinary commitment. Instead of limiting himself to controlling an existing experimental setup, he independently developed and built a completely new control plant. Together with his fellow student Daniel Neeser, he created an advanced setup – the “ball balance”. This teaching model now enables our students to learn the theoretical fundamentals of control engineering in a practical manner. The aim of the experiment is to design a stable control loop that uses a propeller drive to regulate a metal ball to the center of a seesaw.
We are thrilled with this valuable addition to our control engineering lab and appreciate Mr. Glaser’s contribution to the practical training of our students. We wish him much success and all the best for the future as an independent engineer. His commitment is a shining example of the connection between theory and practice that we particularly promote at our university.
