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Howard Jay Chizeck
A A 449
Seattle Campus

Special Topics in Controls

Topics of current interest in controls. Offered: Sp.

Class description

Please ignore outdated official description in catalog.

The goal of this course is an in-depth control engineering design experience in a small design team. The design projects will include attention to project planning and management, reporting, and technical communication. Each project will have a real customer with whom the team will define project requirements.

Student teams will design, implement, test, and report on their project results.

The course will include a few lectures on select topics (eg., project management, intellectual property, and some control engineering topics. Most course effort will be directed toward accomplishing the project. Groups will write and/or present progress reports (uploaded to course wiki, short (5 minutes) or longer reports in class, and each group will meet with the professor and TA most weeks.

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The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class.
Last Update by Howard Jay Chizeck
Date: 03/27/2008