Syllabus

CENG 120: Examination of dynamic linear and linearized models of chemical processes. Stability analysis. Design of PID controllers. Selection of control and manipulated variables. Root locus, Bode and Nyquist plots. Cascade, feed-forward and ratio controls.
 
MAE 143B: Analysis and design of feedback systems in the frequency domain.  Transfer functions. Time response specifications.  PID controllers and Ziegler-Nichols tuning. Stability via Routh-Hurwitz test.  Root locus method.  Frequency response: Bode and Nyquist diagrams. Dynamic compensators, phase-lead and phase-lag.  Actuator saturation and integrator wind-up.

Lectures: Pao C. Chau
- MWF 1:00-1:50 pm (Center 105)
- Email: ce120f@@ieng6.ucsd.edu (I'll check this account once a week every Saturday morning. So if you need answers quick, come to the office hours.)
- Office hours: MW 10 am - 1 pm (EBU2 377 or one of the computer labs in EBU2--whichever not taken by MAE 3)
Discussion/Problems: Ali Oran
- F, 2:00 pm (Center 113)
- Office hours: W 3 pm (EBU2 312)

• Process Control: A First Course with MATLAB. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

1. Transfer function algebra
2. Time response, performance specifications
3. Effects of feedback, PID control
4. Stability, Routh criterion, system types
5. Root Locus
6. Bode plots
7. Nyquist criterion

Grading Policy

Grading

Homework		0%
Mid-term (end of 4th week, Oct. 24th)		20%
Mid-term (end of 7th week, Nov. 14th)		20%
Final Exam (Mon., Dec. 8th, 11:30 am)		60%

• Homework assignments, lecture notes, sample files, and announcements will be posted only on the Web. No handouts will be given in class.
• Homework does not count into the course grade, so make sure you attempt to solve the problems and go to discussion and office hours to ask for help. To better help you, we will grade the homework that you turn in. And with no worry about cheating, you are encouraged to work together on the homework.
• You must work alone on the exams. Communication with another person (with whatever means) during an exam is considered academic dishonesty. That includes peeking into the work of people sitting near you. If you get caught, the score of your exam will automatically be set to zero and subject to additional University rules on academic dishonesty. FYI: this is the link to the ESS page of student conducts.
• The midterms and the final are open book and notes.You can use a graphical and programmable calculator, but not PDAs and lap/palm-top computers--essentially things with communication capabilities. The problems are either pure math or conceptual in nature such that MATLAB and computational tools like a fancy calculator are not useful. So saying that, how much you really learn from this class is self-initiated; the scope of the exams is quite limited.
  
• Keep in mind that open book exams are not designed to allow you to search for things. There is a difference between that and finding things that you know where they are located. We also expect you to know or can immediately do things that are simple and basic. You will not be able to finish the exam if you have to waste time to search for things or to figure out what's going on.
• There is no make-up exams. You simply lose the points if you skip an exam.
• The final exam is cumulative in material.
• The grading is on a flexible curve.