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Revision as of 06:44, 16 May 2015
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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
| LECTURE | TOPICS | REFERENCES |
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| Lecture 1 | River basins; Irrigation canal networks in the Indus river basin; water resources as cyber-physical systems; modeling open channel flows; distributed parameter systems | Control Engineering in Water Resources (3 parts) |
| Lecture 2 | Lumped parameter models of irrigation channels; system identification of canals; building telemetry systems for water flow; | |
| Lecture 3 | Control design for downstream control; distributed control of complex irrigation networks; security of cyber-physical systems; detection of non-technical losses; | |
| Lecture 4 | Agricultural profile of Pakistan; elements of Green revolution; ICT driven Precision Agriculture technologies; GPS auto-steering; satellite imaging; control technologies in variable rate input; | |
| Lecture 5 | Agricultural robotics; sensing, control and decision in Ag robotics; examples from leading research groups; challenges of small farming and the potential of Ag robotics; |
