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1. The Excitement of Control Engineering

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This chapter is intended to provide motivation for studying control engineering. In particular, it covers

• an overview of the scope of control,
• historical periods in the development of control theory,
• types of control problems,
• introduction to system integration, and
• economic benefits analysis.

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