An Integrated Undergraduate Controls Experience

One of the important changes that has occurred in the practice of control design in recent years has resulted from the maturation of computer aided analysis and design tools. Software such as MATLABTM, Matrix-X, or Control-C is now very reliable, user friendly, well supported, and routinely used by designers and researchers. We use MATLAB as one of the cornerstones of both our laboratory and theoretical undergraduate courses, but any of the other similar packages would work as well.