Acknowledgements

First, I would like to thank Dennis Hendriks, project lead of Eclipse ESCET, who has long been the main developer of the CIF toolset. A large part of the 4TC00 website started from Denis’s original RestructuredText documentation of this toolset. Dennis has ported the original documentation to AsciiDoc, to be used in the Eclipse ESCET project, where it is now available as the CIF Language Tutorial.

Second, I would like to thank TUE BOOST, for funding my four-year BOOST project ICT tools to support TPIL in project groups, where TPIL stands for Time and Place Independent Learning. All TAs mentioned below, TUE scientific programmer Albert Hofkamp (anti-plagiarisme software) and PhD student Jeroen Verbakel (anti-plagiarism, high-level support), have been funded by the BOOST project to do work on concepts and tools to support Time and Place Independent Learning, which is essential for the 4TC00 course.

Third, I would like to thank the following TAs, in alphabetical order, for their contribution to the 4TC00 course, website and supporting tools. Only the most important contributions are mentioned.

Robert Devillers

Much work on Quizzes, Intermediate test, Safe Exam Browser, Ans-Delft, Module videos.

Jeroen van Hegelsom

Digital Twins menu system and improved distribution, elaborate manual on how to develop 3D Digital Twins.

Anne van der Horst

MBSE concepts pages, Git/GitKraken pages, several essential website contributions, including the exercises.

Robin van der Meulen

With Mayke: Division of learning material into Modules, Git/GitKraken pages.

Mayke Scheffer

With Robin: Division of learning material into Modules, website checking and correcting.

Casper Vissers

  • Approximately 90% of the development of all 3D digital twins.

  • All website promotion videos: on the MBSE process and on all 3D digital twins.

  • Many improvements to the CIF template models for the final assignments.

  • New TwinCAT workflow for controlling Festo machines and 3D digital twins, including associated website pages.

  • Many website improvements.

Jingjing Wang

Python implementation of several tools for the BOOST project mentioned above.

Finally, I would like to add, that over the last twenty or so years, a large number of people, companies, and Dutch and European institutions have contributed to the toolsets that are now available via the Eclipse ESCET project. I cannot thank them all, and have therefore limited these acknowledgements to those who have made a major contribution to the course 4TC00 and this associated website.

Bert van Beek, Control Systems Technology group, Eindhoven University of Technology, June, 2022.