SIGNALS, SYSTEMS AND CONTROL

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Three hours of lecture per week. This course covers the mathematical foundations for analyzing signals and linear systems with an engineering orientation. Time - and frequency -domain methods are presented and subsequently applied to analyze and design feedback control sys tems using classical control theory. Students will apply scientific and quantitative reasoning to analyze and design control systems typically encountered in industrial applications. In addition, students will learn how to critically evaluate the performance of alternative controller designs that meet a given set of technical specifications. ELEN 417 SYSTEMS LABORATORY 1 CREDIT One three-hour laboratory session per week. This lab course provides practical experiences in control systems. This course encourages students to explore concepts in feedback control systems through lab experiments and open - ended projects. Feedback control experiments include modeling, identification, and servomechanism control. Students will use their critical thinking and quantitative reasoning skills to analyze experimental results and interpret them in the context of classical control theory. The knowledge gained in this course will help students understand many aspects of industrial control automation. ELEN 421 ELECTROMECHANICAL ENERGY CONVERSION LABORATORY 1 CREDIT One three-hour laboratory session per week. This laboratory explores the characterization and application of typical electrical energy conversion components. The laboratory experiments include testing and parameter identification for modeling of direct -current (DC) machines, transformers, poly -phase as well as single -phase systems, magnetic circuits, synchronous machines, and induction machines. In this course students will apply quantitative reasoning and critical thinking skills to analyze different types of electrical machines used in many applications such as electrical vehicles, wind turbines, power distribution, servo drives, among others.