This course provides an introduction to the theory of automatic control systems. The course will enable students to predict system behaviour analytically and design effective feedback control systems that will meet performance specifications in spite of uncertainties in the model. The concepts of feedback, transfer functions, frequency response and the s-plane will be developed. Students will be introduced to a broad range of control design tools including mathematical modelling of system components, block diagram manipulation, linearisation of non-linear models, inverse Laplace transform methods, root locus diagrams and Bode plots. Students will study practical controllers such as the PID controller.