Qing Zhao, Ph.D.

Courses

Current courses:

EE461 - Digital Control (2012W)

Prerequisite: EE338 and EE357 or EE462
 Sampled-data control systems, discretization, transfer function and state space models. Controllability and observability, pole assignment, deadbeat control. State observers, observer based controllers, introduction to optimal control.

ENCMP100 Computer Programming for Engineers (2012W)

Fundamentals of computer programming with emphasis on solving engineering problems. Syntax, variables, statements, control structures, functions, data structures, files, pointers, memory use, searching, sorting, recursion.

ECE560 - Modern Control Theory (2011F)

Graduate core course.
Linear vector spaces. Basis, subspaces, review of matrix theory. State space realizations of linear time-invariant systems. Controllability and observability. Observers. State feedback. Multivariable system descriptions, matrix polynomial and factorization. Parameterization of stabilizing controllers

Other courses taught in the past:

EE462 - Fundamentals of Control Systems Engineering

 Prerequisite: MATH 201

Laplace transforms. Transfer function models of physical systems. First and second order systems. Stability and properties of feedback. PID controllers. Frequency domain analysis and design. Digital control. Case studies.

EE338 - Discrete Time Signals and Systems  (2006W)

Prerequisite: EE238 or EE335 Discrete time signals and systems; sampled signals and sampling theorem; the z-transform; design of digital filters; discrete Fourier transform; the periodogram. Fast Fourier transform, algorithms, aliasing, leakage; spectral analysis, applications. Credit may not be obtained in both EE 338 and 438.

EE357 - Control System I

Prerequisite: EE250, EE238 or EE335

Linear system models. Time response and stability. Block diagrams and signal flow graphs. Feedback control system characteristics. Dynamic compensation. Root locus analysis and design. Frequency response analysis and design. This course may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained in either EE 462 or EE 469.