ENGR 311 System Dynamics
Students will apply a broad range of mathematical tools to systems represented by linear, lumped-parameter models. Many physical domains are considered, including translating and/or rotating mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid systems. Planar motion of rigid bodies will also be studied. Analysis techniques include both transfer function and state-space representations. Time and frequency domain analyses are included, along with a brief introduction to Control Theory. This course includes a laboratory.
Development of system equations in many engineering domains (mechanical, electrical and electromechanical systems, fluid and thermal systems); applications of linear algebra, Laplace transforms, and Fourier analysis methods to problems in many engineering domains; transient and frequency domain response of systems; transfer functions and state space representation of systems; importance of poles and zeroes of a system; vibrating systems. Time-domain and frequency-domain analyses of dynamic systems, time-domain analyses of control systems, frequency-domain analyses and the design of control systems.
MATLAB; measurement of physical systems, modeling and simulation of linear systems; accelerometer, thermal, and oscilloscope measurement and modeling.
Required of CE, EE, and ME students