This course will cover concepts related to classical control theory, beginning with system modeling and identification, and concluding with control design. The focus of this course will be on frequency-domain system design and analysis. Since most engineering disciplines take this class, we will cover electrical, mechanical, and biomedical systems.
Simulation is an important technique for evaluating the performance of robots and autonomous systems. In this course, students will create and run simulation models of robots to understand how different types of robots and different types of planning algorithms work.
This course and ENGR 442 Interdisciplinary Senior Design II are the capstone design courses for the School of Engineering. In the first semester, students form teams to design a product system, and they refine their design through FMEA and DFX analyses. Projects are proposed and guided by faculty mentors, and some design teams collaborate with engineers in local companies and government laboratories.
The objective of this course is for students to learn the key topics in engineering decision-making and risk management so that they can improve decision making and reduce risk in their engineering activities and organizations. In engineering design, project management, and other functions, engineers must make decisions, almost always under time and budget constraints. Managing risk requires making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This course will cover material on individual decision making, group decision making, and organizations of decision-makers. The course will present techniques for making better decisions, for selecting appropriate decision-making processes, and for analyzing, communicating, and managing risk.
This course is an extended version of Math 108 with a focus on the mathematics needed to succeed in Math 121 (Analytic Geometry and Calculus I). Topics include solving equations and inequalities, graphs of functions, multiplying and factoring algebraic expressions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and their inverses, and an introduction to limits.