A first course in feedback, dynamics and control: Preliminary findings of a survey for the IFAC community

This paper introduces a survey for the global control community on the most important topics that should be covered when engineering students take just a single control related course, a situation typical for many undergraduate engineering programs. There has been a rapid increase in the availability and power of both computing and internet resources which has an inevitable affect on both what content and how university education is delivered. This paper provides some context and discussion of a preliminary survey with a limited exposure; the intention is that feedback on this paper and the initial survey results will be used in planning for a more comprehensive survey of the entire IFAC community.