Advanced System Modeling

Graduate-level systems course built around a single idea: physical systems from different domains—mechanical, electrical, fluidic, thermal, chemical—obey the same underlying dynamics once you write them as differential equations or state-space models, so one toolkit suffices for all of them. You'll derive models from first principles, analyze them in time and frequency domains, and design compensators via root locus and Bode plots, with two projects carrying most of the assessment. It builds on undergraduate dynamics and controls (think ME 304-level material) and prepares you for advanced control, mechatronics, and robotics research where the plant rarely lives in just one energy domain.