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! width="75%" colspan="2" | Control Engineering for Environment and Sustainability  
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== Instructors ==

Dr. [[Abubakr Muhammad]], Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Email: abubakr [at] lums.edu.pk

===Course Description===
In Spring 2015, we underwent an interesting and unusual experiment in our EE curriculum, where in an introductory control engineering course ([[EE-361]]) we exposed our undergraduate students to issues of environment and sustainability. Designed as a series of 50 min recitations, we exposed students to contextual and societal issues in water, agriculture, disease etc., even while the content has strong example-based connections to the main text. Large parts of the lectures are accessible to engineering students at the Junior / Sophomore level and to general science & engineering faculty. 

===Venue===
EE361 Sec 1. Monday 11:30am. Venue. A4
EE361 Sec 2. Thurs.   9:30am. Venue. 10-301.

===General Objectives===

* Introduce environmental issues and concepts of sustainability. 
* How to connect technology to the real-world and solve societal grand challenges.
* An accessible introduction to cutting-edge research. 
* Underline the importance of paying attention to the 'Right Problems!' 
* Demonstrate how student involvement helps develop high impact research.
* Introduce students to the general issues of water and agriculture in Pakistan. 
* Identify future areas of research and study.  

===Specific Objectives===

* Introduce students to applications of control & robotics in everyday life. 
* Demonstrate how to model complex systems like water and select appropriate abstraction and detail. 
* Connect textbook knowledge of signals and systems to real-life control engineering. 
* Present examples of single-input single-output linear control design in complex scenarios.   

===Pre-requisites===		

'''Courses'''
EE-310. Signals and Systems
EE-361. Feedback Control Systems 

'''Topics'''
Laplace transform, differential equations, basic signals & systems

== Schedule == 


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| align ="left" | Lecture 1
| align ="left" | River basins; Irrigation canal networks in the Indus river basin; water resources as cyber-physical systems; modeling open channel flows; distributed parameter systems 
| align ="left" | [[Media:Control-Engineering-Water-3Lectures-slides.pdf|Control Engineering in Water Resources - 3Lectures]]
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| align ="left" | Lecture 2
| align ="left" | Lumped parameter models of irrigation channels; system identification of canals; building telemetry systems for water flow; 
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| align ="left" | Lecture 3
| align ="left" | Control design for downstream control; distributed control of complex irrigation networks; security of cyber-physical systems; detection of non-technical losses; 
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| align ="left" | Lecture 4
| align ="left" | Agricultural profile of Pakistan; elements of Green revolution; ICT driven Precision Agriculture technologies; GPS auto-steering; satellite imaging; control technologies in variable rate input;  
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| align ="left" | Lecture 5
| align ="left" | Agricultural robotics; sensing, control and decision in Ag robotics; examples from leading research groups; challenges of small farming and the potential of Ag robotics;   
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