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Control Systems Engineering

Control systems play a critical role in space flight Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that applies control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at many institutions around the world. 

The practice uses sensors and detectors to measure the output performance of the process being controlled; these measurements are used to provide corrective feedback helping to achieve the desired performance. Systems designed to perform without requiring human input are called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering activities focus on the implementation of control systems mainly derived by mathematical modeling of a diverse range of systems.

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Why Learn Control Theory

Brian Douglas
5 min
Beginner
Video
Theory

In this video I present a few reasons why learning control theory is important and try to give some motivation to continue learning.

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Instrument Kit for ME 316

Tangibles That Teach
Beginner
Hardware
Application

This hardware kit accompanies the textbook "Project Based Engineering Instrumentation with CircultPython" by Dr. Carlos Montalvo. Using this hardware and the textbook you’ll build some...

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