Electrical Engineering 290B

Title	Advanced Topics in Solid State Devices
Units	1-3
Description	Model Reference Adaptive Systems - continuous and discrete. Proofs of stability, sufficient excitation, parameter convergence, robustness issues. Study of the differential geometric approach to nonlinear control - controllability, observability, minimality, invariant distributions, disturbance decoupling. Singular perturbations and bifurcations, control problems in robotics, Volterra-Series. Three hours of lecture per week.

Sections Instructor Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Fall 2007 Yablonovitch 5.3 / 7 ± 0.5
5.6 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 2004 (none)

Spring 2003 Section 1 Liddle 5.7 / 7 ± 1.2
5.9 / 7 ± 0.7

Spring 2003 Section 2 Erik Anderson 5.3 / 7 ± 0.9
5.9 / 7 ± 0.7

Fall 1994 S. Shankar Sastry 6.5 / 7 ± 0.4
6.0 / 7 ± 0.7

Spring 1993 S. Shankar Sastry 6.4 / 7 ± 0.4
6.0 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 1990 S. Shankar Sastry 5.9 / 7 ± 0.5
6.0 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1988 S. Shankar Sastry 5.6 / 7 ± 0.6
5.4 / 7 ± 1.1

Overall Rating Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Electrical Engineering 290B 5.6 / 7 ± 0.1
5.8 / 7 ± 0.1

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