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== Control engineering education ==

At many universities around the world, control engineering courses are taught primarily in [[electrical engineering]] and [[mechanical engineering]], but some courses can be instructed in [[mechatronics engineering]],<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1142/10406|title=Mechatronics and Automation Engineering |year=2017 |last1=Zhang |first1=Jianhua |isbn=978-981-320-852-0 }}</ref> and [[aerospace engineering]]. In others, control engineering is connected to [[computer science]], as most control techniques today are implemented through computers, often as [[embedded systems]] (as in the automotive field). The field of control within [[chemical engineering]] is often known as [[process control]]. It deals primarily with the control of variables in a chemical process in a plant. It is taught as part of the undergraduate curriculum of any chemical engineering program and employs many of the same principles in control engineering. Other engineering disciplines also overlap with control engineering as it can be applied to any system for which a suitable model can be derived. However, specialised control engineering departments do exist, for example, in Italy there are several master in Automation & Robotics that are fully specialised in Control engineering or the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse|title=ACSE - The University of Sheffield|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref> or the Department of Robotics and Control Engineering at the United States Naval Academy<ref>{{cite web |title=WRC Home |url=http://www.usna.edu/WSE/ |access-date=19 November 2019 |website=USNA Weapons, Robotics and Control Engineering}}</ref> and the Department of Control and Automation Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=İTÜ Control and Automation Engineering |url=https://kontrol.itu.edu.tr/en |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=Kontrol ve Otomasyon Mühendisliği |language=en}}</ref>.

Control engineering has diversified applications that include science, finance management, and even human behavior. Students of control engineering may start with a linear control system course dealing with the time and complex-s ___domain, which requires a thorough background in elementary mathematics and [[Laplace transform]], called classical control theory. In linear control, the student does frequency and time ___domain analysis. [[Digital control]] and [[nonlinear control]] courses require [[Z transform]]ation and algebra respectively, and could be said to complete a basic control education.