ME 5659 — Control Systems Engineering

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: T/FBostonOnlineLive CastOnlineTraditionalVideo Streaming

Covers concepts in design and control of dynamical systems. Topics include review of continuous-time system modeling and dynamic response; principles of feedback, classical and modern control analyses, and design techniques such as root locus, frequency response (e.g., Bode plots and Nyquist Criteria), and state-space feedback; dynamic analysis, design, and control of electromechanical systems; block diagram algebra or signal-flow graphs, effects of poles and zeros on system response characteristics; principles of controllability, observability, observer designs, and pole placement techniques; introduction to adaptive and learning control and digital implementation of control algorithms.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 20231536088%7.0
Spring 20241254852%23.0
Fall 20242596689%3.5
Spring 20251515298%1.0
Fall 20252528958%18.5
Spring 20262808990%4.5

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 16% · T 55% · W 18% · Th 18% · F 57%

Common patterns: TF (55% of sections), R (18% of sections), MW (16% of sections), async (8% of sections), WF (2% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

ME 7247

Courses that list ME 5659 in their prerequisites.

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