Control Education: A World Showcase
he last time control education was surveyed in the Magazine T was in the June 1992 issue (vol. 12, no. 3). It provided a glimpse into the state of affairs of control education then through the window of the Second IFAC ACE Symposium. In his “Outlook’ section of the overview article, the Guest Editor of that issue, Professor Stephen Yurkovich, raised several intriguing questions regarding control education that “are worth considering as we move on toward the 21st century in engineering education.” Since then, a recurrence of interest and increased awareness of the importance and urgency of the problems in control education has appeared. This is evidenced by an increased number of publications and special conference sessions on control education in the past few years. In particular, the Magazine has introduced two new columns on educational issues-“Eye on Education” and “Lecture Notes.” The Third FAC ACE Symposium saw a great expansion in attendance, scope, and number of papers and presentations. It was under this backdrop that the idea for this special issue on control education around the world was conceived. However, the scope and format of this special issue, as it appears now, evolved over more than a