[Control and Instrumentation]

This is the homepage of the Control and Instrumentation Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town.

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<> Software
download educational control software
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<> Course notes
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<> Cybernal
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Brief History

The subject of control engineering was started in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the 1960s [1]. Since then it has been through many changes including being a shared subject between the Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to become a well-established section within the Department of Electrical Engineering that provides courses for Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical students as well as having strong links with the separate control section in Chemical Engineering Department.

[1] Braae,M., Boje,E., Craig,I.K., De Vaal,P.L., Gouws,J., McLaren,S.G., Swartz,C.L.E., Ungerer,C.P., van Niekerk,J.L., Wigdorowitz,B. ``Control Education: South Africa'', IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 16 No. 2, April 1996, p. 41-47.

Aims

Today the Control Engineering Laboratory is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering. It provides undergraduate courses on linear time-invariant continuous and digital input-output systems as well as and introduction to state space theory to 150 electrical and 50 mechanical and electro-mechanical undergraduate students.

Contact details

email:

mbraae@eng.uct.ac.za

postal address:

Professor M. Braae
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
7701
South Africa

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