Introduction to practical and theoretical aspects of process control, process modeling, feedback control system, and instruments of the control system. Stability analysis tuning of controllers, frequency analysis, Bode stability, cascade control, feed-forward control. Adaptive control system. Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. Interaction and decoupling. Sampled-data control theory with applications in digital computer control systems. Nonlinear methods of dynamic process analysis. Optimal control via calculus of variations and the maximum principle. State space representation. This course includes lab/ simulation component