Discussion on Teaching of Programmable Logic Controller for Outstanding Engineers Education

The education and training for outstanding engineers is a comprehensive strategy. It relates to many aspects, such as curriculum development and teaching material selection, the investment of teaching equipments and experimental facilities, theory and practice teaching, performance evaluation mechanism, on campus study and off campus exercise, learning before graduation and application after graduation, and so on. It needs collaborative optimization and improvement together of these aspects. Programmable logic controller (PLC) has become a required course in engineering colleges, because of its wide application prospect. In this paper, we analyze the factors that influence the teaching and training of outstanding engineers taking the course of PLC as an example, and we illustrate the technique and methods that mastering PLC programming taking a large number of sequence control in power plant as examples.