Schedule

Assignment Deadlines

Assignments are due at 10 pm via Gradescope unless otherwise directed.

Deadline	Description
Friday, January 19	Order Temperature Control Lab (no submission required)
Monday, January 22	Class Policies Quiz (opens after Friday lab, submit via Canvas)
Thursday, January 25	Homework 1: Computing and Data Analysis Review
Thursday, February 1	Lab 1: Step Test of a First-Order System
Thursday, February 8	Lab 2: Relay (On-Off) Control
Thursday, February 22	Lab 3: Model Identification
Friday, March 8	Lab 4: PI Control
Thursday, March 21	Homework 2: Optimization
Friday, March 22	Project Proposals (team submission)
Thursday, April 4	In-Class Exam (no Gradescope submission)
Monday, April 8	Lab 5: Open Loop Optimization
Friday, April 19	Lab 6: Model Predictive Control
Tuesday, April 23	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Thursday, April 25	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Tuesday, April 30	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Final Exam Day	Project Reports/Notebooks Due (team submission)

Labratory Sessions

Fridays from 11:35 am - 12:25 pm (session 1) and 12:50 pm - 1:40 pm (session 2) in A68 Fitzpatrick Hall.

Date	Description
Friday, January 19	Installing Python and Hardware Demonstration
Friday, January 26	Lab 1: Step Test of a First-Order System
Friday, February 2	Lab 2: Relay (On-Off) Control
Friday, February 9	Lab 3: Model Identification
Friday, February 16	Office Hours
Friday, February 23	Lab 4: PI Control
Friday, March 1	Office Hours
Friday, March 8	Office Hours
Friday, March 15	Spring Break
Friday, March 22	Lab 5: Open Loop Optimization
Friday, March 29	Good Friday
Friday, April 5	Office Hours
Friday, April 12	Lab 6: Model Predictive Control
Friday, April 19	Office Hours

Class Meetings

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:45am in 136 DeBartolo Hall.

Main Topic(s)	Supplemental Material
Tuesday, January 16	Welcome
What is Process Control?	Schedule
What is Feedback?	Syllabus
Elements of Process Control	Python Tutorials
Thursday, January 18	CBE 20258 Review
Homework 1: Computing and Data Analysis Review	Python
	Solving Nonlinear Equations
	Numeric Integration
	Error Propagation
	Nonlinear Regression
Tuesday, January 23	Modeling: Linear Systems
One Compartment Pharmacokinetics
Thursday, January 25	Modeling: Linear Systems
First-Order Linear Systems
Tuesday, January 30	Modeling: Temperature Control Lab
First Order Model for a Single Heater	Relay Control
Fitting a Model to Experimental Data
Thursday, February 1	Modeling: Second and Higher Order Systems
Second Order Model	Fitting a Model to Experimental Data
Tuesday, February 6	Modeling: Second Order Systems
Characteristics of Second Order Systems
Thursday, February 8	Modeling: Second Order Systems
Characteristics of Second Order Systems	Lab 3: Model Identification
Tuesday, February 13	Nonlinear Modeling: Exothermic CSTR
Exothermic Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor
Thursday, February 15	Nonlinear Modeling: Hare and Lynx, Introduction of Feedback
Hare and Lynx Population Dynamics	Study Guide
Feedback Control	Case Study: PCR Thermal Cycler Protocols
Case Study: Thermal Cycling for PCR	Relay Control
Setpoints	Implementing Controllers in Python
Tuesday, February 20	Feedback Control: P, PI, and PID
Practical Proportional (P) and Proportional-Integral (PI) Control
Thursday, February 22	PI Implementation Details
Integral Windup and Bumpless Transfer
Tuesday, February 27	PI Stability Analysis
Analysis of Proportional Only Controller
Analysis of Proportional-Integral Controller
Thursday, February 29	PID Tuning
Controller Tuning
Tuesday, March 5	Optimization Modeling and Linear Programming in Pyomo
Linear Production Model	Optimization Python Book: Mathematical Optimization
Linear Blending Problems	Optimization Python Book: Linear Optimization
Thursday, March 7	Nonlinear Programming Examples
Gasoline Blending
Design of a Cold Weather Fuel
Tuesday, March 19	Dynamic Optimization
Pyomo.DAE Theory	TCLab: Open-Loop Optimization and Estimation using Pyomo
Pyomo.DAE Example
Thursday, March 21	Simulation and Open-Loop Control
TCLab: Open-Loop Optimization and Estimation using Pyomo
Tuesday, March 26	State Estimation
TCLab: Open-Loop Optimization and Estimation using Pyomo
Thursday, March 28	Model Predictive Control
Tuesday, April 2	Review Session
Thursday, April 4	Midterm Exam (in-class)
Tuesday, April 9	Project Consulations (in-class)
Thursday, April 11	Project Consulations (in-class)
Tuesday, April 16	Project Consulations (in-class)
Thursday, April 18	Project Consulations (in-class)
Tuesday, April 23	Project Presentations (in-class)
Thursday, April 25	Project Presentations (in-class)