Teaching software engineering to undergraduates in a control engineering context

The topics traditionally associated with control engineering courses at undergraduate level are, typically: dynamic modelling of physical systems, principles of linear systems, feedback theory and digital control systems. Modern control systems depend heavily on software for their implementation and the authors believe that it is advisable to integrate the teaching of control engineering with real-time systems and software engineering. They describe the first stage of development of a course to achieve these aims within their undergraduate curriculum at Bangor University. They focus on software engineering for real-time control systems