Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 590

Abstract: As the flourishing of computer technology and the appearing of lots of large-scale and well-designed corpora and concordance software, corpus-based approach, an advanced teaching resources, has been widely employed in language researches of various fields and perspectives. English teaching material, the main source of language input, has the quality and authority in Chinese English language teaching classes. The present study attempts to bring about some innovations in construction and designing of teaching material on the basis of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Moreover, the research is intended to effectively improve teacher’s input and introducing data-driven learning (DDL), and to effectively stimulate the motivations of students by using this computer-aided and COCA-based designing.

Abstract: Digital control is an important professional course for most engineering students. This course is not pure theoretical, but practical for its close relationship with practical industrial automation systems design and implementation. Experiment plays an important role in the whole course learning. Most of traditional experiments for digital control are pure simulation. Students cannot grasp knowledge and technical ability in this way. A real physical model is introduced in this paper. How the real physical model experiments was built up and integrated into the digital control course at CDHAW China. The lab architecture, experiments proposed, extending experiments were discussed.