Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Digital Control System Design Course Offered Spring 2015

Undergraduate and Graduate Students:

I will be teaching AA/EE/ME 581 “Digital Control System Design” this Spring Quarter.  And while it is officially a graduate course, it will be open to undergraduate as well as graduate students.  

The University Catalog description for the course lists AA/EE/ME 584 as a prerequisite.  584 is not a prerequisite for the course as I will teach it this Spring Quarter (and thereafter).  A solid undergraduate-level background in analog control system design, is all that will be required to do well in this course.

If your areas of interest includes mechatronics and/or control system design (and you’ve not taken such a course before), you will benefit from this course.

And it is my pleasure to announce that, beginning this Spring Quarter, this course will include a hands-on-with-hardware component.  This component will involve a series of projects, each utilizing LabVIEW and a National Instruments myRIO board (which runs a bona fide hard-real-time operating system); one myRIO board to be loaned, for the duration of the quarter, to each student who is enrolled in the course.  A video description of this component is posted here:


Should you have additional questions, please email them to me directly.

Martin Berg
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Box 352600
University of Washingon
Seattle WA 98195-2600
berg@uw.edu