Teaching

Special Topics

• Ordinary differential equation

• Linear algebra

• Fourier analysis

• Partial differential equations

• Estimation of transfer functions

• Drawing block diagrams in LaTeX

• 11 tools in feedback control

• From Cooking to Advanced Manufacturing–Controls, Automation, and Beyond

Course List

2017

UCONN – Adaptive and Optimal Controls, ME3295 / ME5895, (Fall 2017)

• Course Description: Advanced control methodologies and their applications to engineering systems such as motion control, additive manufacturing. Tentative topics include: State-Space Modeling, Solution of State Equations, Lyapunov Stability, Controllability and Observability, State-Feedback Control, Observer Design, Linear Quadratic Optimal Control, Optimal Estimation, Linear Quadratic Gaussian Problem, Adaptive Prediction, Introduction to H infinity Control.

UCONN – Mechanical Vibrations, ME 3220, (Spring 2017)

• Responsible for 71 students

• ME3220 is an undergraduate required course covering topics including: Free and forced vibrations, with damping, of linear systems with one and two degrees of freedom. Transient vibrations. Vibration isolation. Rigid rotor balancing. Elements of Laplace transforms.

2016

UCONN – 3D Printing – Learn by Building, ME3295 / MSE4095, (Fall 2016)

• Responsible for 38 students

• Course Description: Explore mechatronics in 3D printing systems; the synchronization of mechanical and electrical components, materials, and thermodynamics. Build and calibrate an open-source fused deposition modeling 3D printer. Design and print functional parts in a competition-based final exam.

UCONN – Mechanical Vibrations, ME 3220, (Spring 2016)

• Responsible for 70 students

• ME3220 is an undergraduate required course covering topics including: Free and forced vibrations, with damping, of linear systems with one and two degrees of freedom. Transient vibrations. Vibration isolation. Rigid rotor balancing. Elements of Laplace transforms.

2015

UCONN – System Identification and Adaptive Control (Special Topics in Advanced Control Systems), ME 5895, (Fall 2015)

• Responsible for 11 students

• Overall evaluation: 5.0/5.0

• ME5895-001 is a special topic course intended for all levels of graduate students majoring in Controls and Systems. We will cover three important topics in modern control engineering: parameterization of all stabilizing controllers (Youla-Kucera parameterization), system identification, and adaptive control.

2014

UCONN – Engineering Analysis I, ME 5507, (Fall 2014)

• Responsible for 31 students

• ME5507 is a first-year graduate course covering topics in mathematics that are central for solving practical engineering problems. Topics include but are not limited to: differential equations, linear algebra, and optimization. It is a prerequisite to other advanced graduate courses in the UCONN ME department.

UC Berkeley – Advanced Control Systems II), ME 233, (Spring 2014) syllabus

• Position: instructor (responsible for 24 students)

• Overall evaluation: 6.2/7 effectiveness; 6.4/7 course worth

• Remark: as an open learning initiative, the course was webcasted to Youtube * iTunes U * berkeley webcast

• ME233 discusses advanced control methodologies and their applications to engineering systems. Methodologies include but are not limited to: Linear Quadratic Optimal Control, Kalman Filter, Discretization, Linear Quadratic Gaussian Problem, Loop Transfer Recovery, System Identification, Adaptive Control and Model Reference Adaptive Systems, Self Tuning Regulators, Repetitive Control, and Disturbance Observers.

2013

UC Berkeley – Dynamical Systems and Feedback, ME 132, (Fall 2013) syllabus sample midterm 1

• Position: instructor (responsible for 100 students)

• Overall evaluation: 5.4/7 (6.1/7 highest score) effectiveness; 5.9/7 (6.3/7 highest score) course worth

• ME132 is the first undergraduate course on dynamic systems and control in the ME department at UC Berkeley. It introduces the general concept and fundamental theories of systems and controls.

UC Berkeley – Experiential Advanced Control Design I, ME C231A (Fall 2013)

• Position: substitute instructor for Prof. Andrew Packard in the lecture “Performance Limitations in Single-input Single-output Feedback Systems”.

• Course information: ME C231 A teaches experience-based learning in the design of SISO and MIMO feedback controllers for linear systems. In particular, students will be exposed to and develop expertise in two key control design technologies: frequency-domain control synthesis and time-domain optimization-based approach.

UC Berkeley – Advanced Control Systems II, ME 233, (Spring 2013)

• Position: graduate student instructor (responsible for 30 students). Same duties as those in ME 232.

• Overall GSI evaluation: 4.59/5

• Instructor: Masayoshi Tomizuka

2012

UC Berkeley – Advanced Control Systems I, ME 232/ EE 220A, (Fall 2012)

• Position: graduate student instructor (responsible for 36 students). I lead discussion sessions weekly, prepare homework solutions, and make some of the homework and exam problems.

• Overall GSI evaluation: 4.54/5, UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor 2012

• Instructor: Masayoshi Tomizuka

• ME232/EE220A is the first graduate course offered by the ME Department on dynamic systems and control at UC Berkeley. It is a pre-requisite to most of the other graduate courses offered by the department in this area. This class deals with analysis and design techniques for linear control systems.