Schedule (2025)

Assignment Deadlines

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

Deadline	Description
Friday, January 17	Order Temperature Control Lab (no submission required)
Monday, January 20	Class Policies Quiz (opens after Friday lab, submit via Canvas)
Tuesday, January 21	9am, Homework 1: Computing and Data Analysis Review (first part)
Thursday, January 23	Homework 1: Computing and Data Analysis Review (remainder)
Friday, January 24	9am, Lab 1 (Exercise 0)
Thursday, January 30	Lab 1: Step Test of a First-Order System
Friday, January 31	9am, Lab 2 (Exercise 0)
Tuesday, February 11	Lab 2: Model Identification
Friday, February 14	9am, Lab 3 (Exercise 0)
Tuesday, February 25	Lab 3: Relay (On-Off) Control
Friday, February 28	9am, Lab 4 (Exercise 0)
Friday, March 7	Lab 4: PI Control
Friday, March 21	Project Proposals (team submission)
Tuesday, March 25	Homework 2: Optimization
Friday, March 28	9am, Lab 5 (Exercise 0)
Tuesday, April 8	In-Class Exam (no Gradescope submission)
Thursday, April 10	Lab 5: Open Loop Optimization
Friday, April 11	9am, Lab 6 (quick quiz on Canvas)
Friday, April 25	Lab 6: Model Predictive Control (MPC)
Tuesday, April 22	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Thursday, April 24	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Tuesday, April 29	In-Class Project Presentations (team, upload slides as PDF by 8am)
Sunday, May 4	Project Reports/Notebooks Due (team submission)

Laboratory Sessions

Fridays from 10:30 am - 11:20 am (session 1) and 11:30 am - 12:20 pm (session 2) in 133 DeBartolo Hall (computer classroom).

Date	Description
Friday, January 17	Testing Your Software Environment and TCLab
Friday, January 24	Lab 1: Step Test of a First-Order System
Friday, January 31	Lab 2: Model Identification
Friday, February 7	Office Hours
Friday, February 14	Lab 3: Relay (On-Off) Control
Friday, February 21	Office Hours
Friday, February 28	Lab 4: PI Control
Friday, March 7	Office Hours
Friday, March 14	Spring Break
Friday, March 21	Office Hours
Friday, March 28	Lab 5: Open Loop Optimization
Friday, April 4	Office Hours
Friday, April 11	Lab 6: Model Predictive Control (MPC)
Friday, April 18	Good Friday
Friday, April 25	Office Hours

Class Meetings

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:45am in 131 DeBartolo Hall.

Main Topic(s)	Supplemental Material
Tuesday, January 14	Welcome
What is Process Control?	Schedule (2025)
What is Feedback?	Syllabus
Elements of Process Control	Python Tutorials
Thursday, January 16	CBE 20258 Review
Homework 1: Computing and Data Analysis Review	Python
	Solving Nonlinear Equations
	Numeric Integration
	Error Propagation
	Nonlinear Regression
Tuesday, January 21	Modeling: Linear Systems
One Compartment Pharmacokinetics	Recorded Lecture from Prior Year
First-Order Linear Systems	Recorded Lecture from Prior Year
Thursday, January 23	Modeling: TCLab as First Order Linear System
First Order Model for a Single Heater
Tuesday, January 28	More About Nonlinear Regression
Fitting a Model to Experimental Data
Thursday, January 30	Modeling: TCLab as Second Order Linear System
Second Order Model	Lab 2: Model Identification
Tuesday, February 4	Modeling: Second Order Systems
Characteristics of Second Order Systems
Thursday, February 6	Nonlinear Modeling: Exothermic CSTR
Exothermic Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor
Tuesday, February 11	Nonlinear Modeling: Hare and Lynx
Hare and Lynx Population Dynamics	Study Guide
Thursday, February 13	Introduction of Feedback
Feedback Control	Relay Control
Case Study: Thermal Cycling for PCR	Case Study: PCR Thermal Cycler Protocols
Setpoints	Implementing Controllers in Python
Tuesday, February 18	Feedback Control: P, PI, and PID
Practical Proportional (P) and Proportional-Integral (PI) Control
Thursday, February 20	PI Stability Analysis
Analysis of Proportional Only Controller
Analysis of Proportional-Integral Controller
Tuesday, February 25	PI Implementation Details
Integral Windup and Bumpless Transfer
Stability Analysis Revisited
Thursday, February 27	PID Tuning
Controller Tuning
Tuesday, March 4	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 6	More Linear Programming Examples
Gasoline Blending	Design of a Cold Weather Fuel
Tuesday, March 18	Dynamic Optimization
Pyomo.DAE Race Car Example	Review of Numeric Integration
Pyomo.DAE TCLab	Pyomo.DAE Theory
Pyomo.DAE for Heat Transfer PDEs
Pyomo.DAE for Mass Transfer PDEs
Thursday, March 20	Simulation and Open-Loop Control
TCLab: Open-Loop Optimization and Estimation using Pyomo
Tuesday, March 25	Optimization Under Uncertainty
Stochastic Programming
Thursday, March 27	Exam Review
Exam Information and Topics
Tuesday, April 1	Project Consultations (in-class)
Thursday, April 3	State Estimation and Model Predictive Control
TCLab: Open-Loop Optimization and Estimation using Pyomo
Tuesday, April 8	Exam starting at 8am in 131 DBT
Thursday, April 10	Project Consultations (in-class)
Tuesday, April 15	Calcium Signaling Continued
Thursday, April 17	Project Consultations (in-class)
Tuesday, April 22	Project Presentations (in-class)
Thursday, April 24	Project Presentations (in-class)
Tuesday, April 29	Project Presentations (in-class)