System Dynamics and Controls Online

by Cherish · Published May 21, 2019 · Updated July 20, 2020

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System Dynamics and Controls is one of my favorite classes to teach! It’s got lots of fundamentals in it that are actually very useful. This is where you get to put your knowledge from Dynamics and Differential Equations to good use.

I love the material but many students don’t agree with me on that. They struggle with how to put everything together. So, what did I do? I created an online course to give students more study material, of course!

System Dynamics and Controls Online Course

This course starts out with the basics of Laplace transforms and then works its way up to things like state space and steady state error.

You’ll get on demand lecture videos with the theory and plenty of examples to go along with them.

System Dynamics & Controls Topics

Laplace transforms
Transfer functions
Response equations
Equations of motion of mechanical and electrical systems
First order response
Second order response
State space representation
Block diagram reduction
Stability and Routh’s Criterion
Steady state error analysis
Root locus
MATLAB applications
And more!

What Comes with the Course

18.5 hours of on-demand video lectures
61 examples
MATLAB examples with downloadable files
Downloadable outline of notes to help you create a set of organized notes
Downloadable equation sheet and Laplace transform table
Certificate of Completion once you finish the course
Email access to the instructor
30-day money back guarantee so there’s no risk to try it out

Textbook

For the majority of the course, I use and follow the Nise Controls textbook. It’s a clearly written textbook that doesn’t focus heavily on theory. It’s a great starter book for System Dynamics and Controls.