Teaching control amid a digital revolution: some challenges and a simple suggestion

In recent years, the rapid and pervasive digitalisation of systems has fundamentally transformed the way they are designed, built, and controlled. This shift has introduced new concepts, methodologies, and skills into control engineering, many of which were outside its traditional scope but are now essential for professionals as the boundaries between control and other disciplines increasingly blur. As a result, to maintain student attraction for systems and control, it is advisable for education to evolve in a view to addressing the nowadays changing landscape. In this paper, we discuss some of the entailed challenges and formulate a simple suggestion. Copyright (c) 2025 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)