New undergraduate courses in control

The focus of this article is on the two new undergraduate courses, "Introduction to Computerized Control" and "Modeling and Simulation". Introduction to Computerized Control presents dynamics, time-domain control design, instrumentation, and real-time computing in the format of four hours of lectures per week, two compulsory laboratory exercises, and seven Web-based sets of problems. The course gives insight into key problems in control theory, instrumentation, and other topics that form the basis for implementing automatic control systems. Modeling and simulation of dynamic processes has developed from a tool for specialists in universities and industry to a routine activity in many sectors of industry and in entertainment. Modeling and simulation courses have focuses on generic model representations and input-output models.