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Howard Jay Chizeck
E E 449
Seattle Campus
Design problems for aerospace vehicles, systems with unstable dynamics, lightly damped modes, nonminimum phase, nonlinear dynamics. Computer-aided analysis, design, and simulation, with laboratory hardware-in-the-loop testing. Team design reviews, oral presentations. Prerequisite: either A A 448 or E E 448. Offered: jointly with A A 449.
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Please ignore outdated official description in catalog.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.
Student learning goals
Application of control engineering methods to a real problem.
Project Planning and Management.
Reporting engineering project and technical results.
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
This is a capstone course, building upon (and using) all of the other engineering, computer science, science and other courses that students have taken.
Class assignments and grading
Grades based upon project reports and presentations, success of the project, participation in the project team. There are no traditional exams or homework assignments.
