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Class Ratings

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Professor Rating

1Awful Prof

Prof: Zhiling Fan / Winter 2025

Feb 21, 2025

Comments on the course

Course is not taught well. Lectures are very confusing and unclear. Needs to have clearer lectures and take the time to lay the base of control theory with laplace transform first.

Course Content

Control theory, stability analysis, phase planes, multivariable assessment, matlab.

Comments on the professor

She struggles to explain even basic concepts clearly and the more complex concepts are therefore extremely hard to follow. More so, they do not follow a clear path. Should explain setting up ODEs, then laplace transform, step functions, finding real and imaginary roots, then K value gains for stability, then phase plane analysis (bode plots), how to find asymptotes, then matrixes and setting those up in matlab for analysis.

Advice

Take more time to lay the groundwork for control theory in a more logical manner. Lectures are unclear and confusing. Switch textbooks to a more recent book with better explanations. Do not rush the lectures and review the organization of the slides. Jumping all over the slides makes it harder to follow.

Course: EBS 130Delivery: HybridGrade: Not sure yetWorkload: HeavyTextbook Use: Yes
Exam Heavy