Afef Fekih, Ph.D.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

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§ Courses Currently Taught

§ Undergraduate Courses

EECE 461 Control Systems, Fall & Spring semester

(3,0,3). Feedback control of dynamic systems. Dynamic Models. Dynamic response. Basic properties of feedback. Root-Locus Design. Frequency response design Methods. State space design. Coreq: EECE 444.

EECE 423 Senior seminar, Fall & Spring semester

(0,2,1). Visiting lecturers and practice in oral and written communications. Prereq: Within last two semesters of curriculum.

§ Graduate Courses

ENGR 517 Control Systems I, Spring semester

(3,0,3). Control loop analysis and design. Laplace transform approach for continuous systems. Z transform approach for sampled data systems. Mathematical models of dynamic systems. State space design techniques. Stability, controllability, observability. Optimal control design. Hardware and software implementation of common compensators. The course emphasizes practical applications over theory and is of interest to all students in the College of Engineering. Prereq. EECE 461 or consent of instructor.

EECE/TLCM 505 Advanced Control Design, Fall semester

(3,0,3). Advanced control systems design and applications. Topics include (a) control of nonlinear systems, (b) stability (c) robust control, (d) fault tolerant control design. Examples and illustrations of control systems design from all engineering disciplines. Prereq. EECE 461 or MECE474, or CHEE 413.