• The final exam will be on Wednesday December 10th, 10:00-12:00 noon in the same class room.
• You are allowed to bring another 1-paged hand-written formula sheet. So in total, you can bring 3 pages including previous ones from Exams 1 and 2.
• The scope is comprehensive and up to frequency response and Bode diagram.
• The note from the final class.
• If you have any of scores in Exams 1 and 2 is lower than 80-1.5*18=80-36=53 (lower 1.5*sigma), please redo the corresponding exam(s), and submit your work before the final exam. 
• I will give small credit back to you for your extra-effort.
  
• Return the copy of your exam(s) to prove your score is lower than 53.
• Solution to Exam 2 is here.
• There will be no class on Wed Nov 26th. Happy Thanksgiving!
• A simple solution to determine the pole and zero of the lead compensator is in this note.
• The note on the review session for Exam 2 is uploaded.
• Today's note on steady state error due to step reference and disturbance inputs is uploaded
• The PI controller note is uploaded.
• Exam 2 will be on Nov. 21st Friday in class.
• One more page (with hand-written formulas) can be added to your previous one-page formula sheet.
• The exam scope covers materials from Lecture 12 to Lecture 20 (HW9).
• Note that previous topics, e.g., stability, block diagrams show up in current topics for Exam 2.
• HW8 is posted now.
• HW7 is posted.
• HW6 is posted.
• Exam 1 will be on Friday October 24 in class.
• The exam scope covers up to materials up to HW5 and Lecture 11.
• You can bring one-paged, hand-written cheat sheet (US Letter size).
• Closed-book.
• There will be no class on Wednesday October 22 (Travel for DSCC 2014: http://www.asmeconferences.org/dscc2014/).
• If the question ask for "derivation" you need to show the intermediate steps to derive the solution in your exam.

• If you have 2 points off from Problem 5 of the quiz due to missing derivation in your solution,  you will get some points back. Please send me and Sina (jahangi5@msu.edu) an email that contains a clear picture of the first page of the graded quiz (to show your graded problem 5).

• HW5 is due on Monday 10/12.
• HW4 is due on Friday 10/3.
• HW3 is due on Friday 9/26.

• HW1 and Quiz solutions are uploaded.
• HW2 is due on Friday 9/19.
• HW1 is due on Friday 9/12.
• Update!: The math quiz will be on Sept. 12 next Friday in class.

• Sample exams:
• See systems and controls in http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/qualifying-exams
• See midterm exams from Prof. Radcliffe's website: http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/me451/radcliff/Handouts/PastExams/Midterm1/

• A math quiz is coming soon.
• Prepare for the math quiz with old math quizzes in http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/me451/radcliff/Handouts/index.html

Engineering Building
428 S. Shaw Lane, Room 2459

East Lansing, MI 48824, Phone: (517)-432-3164 

Lab website: http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/me451/me451_labs/Fall_2014/index.html

Grader for Homework:  

Sina Jahangiri

Email: jahangi5@msu.edu

Other TAs are available during laboratory sessions for students to consult with homework.

• Lecture 0-[8-26-2013], Course information, complex numbers and logarithm.
  
• Lecture 1-[8-26-2013], Introduction to feedack control.
• Lecture 2-[8-26-2013], Laplace transform-concise version.
• Lecture 2 [8-26-2013], Laplace transform-extended version.
• Lecture 3-[8-26-2013],  ODE solution using Laplace transform
• Here is the complete notes-[8-26-2013].
• Lecture 4-[8-26-2013], Transfer function, modeling of electrical systems.
• Lecture 4, transfer function-[8-26-13] .
• Lecture 4, electric circuit-[8-26-13].
  
• Lecture 5 [2-1-11], Modeling of mechanical systems.
• Lecture 5 [2-1-11]-complete.
• quarter car model 1
• quarter car model 2
• Lecture 6 [2-7-11], Block diagrams.
• Lecture 7 [2-9-11], Linearization
  
• Additional linearization note from Dr. Radcliffe. 
• Lecture 8, Modeling of DC motors [2-11-11]
• Lecture 8 complete notes [2-11-11]
• Lecture 9, Stability[2-16-11]
• Lecture 10 [2-21-11], Routh Hurwitz criterion.
• Lecture 10, complete notes [2-21-11]
• Lecture 11 [2-25-11], Routh Hurwitz criterion: Control examples.
• Lecture 11 complete notes [2-25-11]
• Lecture 12 [3-11-11], Time domain specifications.
• Lecture 13 [3-14-11], Steady state error.
• Extra notes on steady state error
• Extra note about PID controller.
• Extra note about PI controller.
• Lecture 14 [2-21-11], Time respnose of 1st order systems.
• Lecture 15 [3-30-11], Time response of 2nd oder systems.
• Lecture 16 [4-1-11], Root locus,
• Lecture 17, Root locus: examples.
• extra notes
• Lecture 18, Root locus: sketch of proofs.
• examples for angle of departure
  
• Lecture 19, Root locus, multiple parameter design.
• Lecture 20, Root locus, lead compensator design.
• Lecture 21, Root locus, Lag compensator, Lead-lag compensator design.
• Effect of adding poles (integrators)
• Lecture 22, Frequency response
• Lecture 23, Bode plots.
• Lecture 24, Bode plots.
• Relative stability.
• Frequency response controller desgin (written by Dr. Radcliffe)
• matlab file

• http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/me451/radcliff/Handouts/index.html

• Quiz solution
• HW1 solution.
• HW2 solution.
• HW3 solution.
• HW4 solution.
• HW5 solution.
• Exam 1 solution.
• HW6 solution.
• HW7 solution.
• HW8 solution.
• Exam 2 solution.

• HW0: Old math quiz, spring 2011 (will not be collected).
• HW1: (Due date: 9/12 Friday). 
• HW2: (Due date: 9/19 Friday).
• HW3: (Due data: 9/26 Friday).
• HW4: (Due data: 10/3 Friday).
• HW5: (Due on Monday 10/12).
• HW6: (Due on Wednesday 10/29).
• HW7: (Due on Wednesday 11/5).
• HW8: (Due on Wednesday 11/12).
• HW9: Re-do the lead compensator design (will not be collected).

1. Homework will be done in one week from the day it is assigned.
2. laboratory attendance and a minimum of  70% lab grade in the laboratory reports will be required to pass the course.