May 19, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MAE 476 - Mechanical Control Systems I


(3 units)

Prerequisite: MAE 376  with a grade of “C” or better.
Feedback control systems in mechanical engineering. Modeling, analysis, and design. System performance and design criteria: stability, transient response, frequency response and compensation, root locus. Introduction to nonlinear control systems, state space analysis and design.

Letter grade only (AF). (Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Same course as MAE 476H . Not open for credit to students with credit in MAE 476H .