Objectives
Topics Addressed
Entrance Requirements
Graduation Requirements
Program Duration
Plan of Study

To improve the participant's ability to:

• Implement modern control techniques
• Keep up with the latest control and data acquisition strategies
• Deal with noisy, nonlinear and nonstationary processes
• Develop new production and quality control procedures
• Work with real-time, distributed software
• Develop advanced control procedures
• Continue to learn concepts, tools, and skills

Topics addressed include

• Design and analysis of feedback control systems using frequency-domain and state-space methods

• Model-based process control

• Mathematical representations of systems

• Controllability, observability, state estimation, and parameter identification

• Lyapunov stability

• Model-predictive control on multivariable, nonlinear, nonstationary, noisy processes.

• Robust nonlinear control system design

• Failure of superposition of effects, phase-plane analysis, limit-cycles

• Introduction to optimal control

• State feedback and state observers

• Digital data acquisition and signal processing
• Real-time software development
• Adaptive control
• Intelligent systems
• Neural network
• Fuzzy Logic
• Robotics: kinematics, dynamics and control
• Production control
• Discrete event simulation
• Information systems
• Statistical process control
• Designed experimentation
• Digital signal processing
• Engineering systems reliability evaluation
• Software engineering
• Chemical process instrumentation and control
• Computer networks

Graduation Requirements
There are two options for the MSCSE degree: Research and Creative Component. The creative component option consists of 33 semester credit hours (SCH). At least three courses are selected from a set of four core courses. One course must be selected which has a significant project that can count as the creative component. Two additional courses must be chosen from one particular category to establish depth. The five remaining courses can come from throughout the approved list of courses. The research option consists of 30 semester credit hours (SCH), of which six hours consist of research. A list of program courses can be found here.

The core courses are...

• CHE 5853 - Advanced Process Control
• ECEN 5713 - Linear Systems
• MAE 5463 - Nonlinear Systems Analysis and Control
• MAE 5473 - Digital Control Systems

In addition to the core control courses, we offer five areas of control-relevant specialization (off-campus video or TV offerings are from a limited subset of these courses). The five areas are Signal Processing, Modeling, Analytical/Numerical Methods and Simulation, Equipment/Software/Operating Systems, and Systems and Control. The courses that fall in these areas are shown in the following table.

No more than 2 courses can be from the 4xxx* category, and none from the student's undergraduate major, may be used in the MSCSE degree plan.

Some students who have been out of school for a while would want to take GENG-4010, Engineering Mathematics Review, to prepare for the MS Courses. GENG-4010 is a credit course, but does not count toward the MSCSE requirements.

Courses without numbers are currently being developed or are planned. All other course descriptions are in Appendix A.

In addition, students may take up to 6 SCH in a special problems course when approved by the MSCSE Program Director.

Preferably, for off-campus students choosing the creative component option, the creative component project would be a control application for their employer which would benefit the employer as well as demonstrate the student's ability to integrate a wide range of control relevant topics.

Program Duration
The MSCSE program is meant to be flexible, permitting you to build a strong degree that directly addresses your needs and prepares you for the future. The pace at which you pursue the degree will largely be determined by your specific circumstances. Three examples of MSCSE enrollment are presented below:

Plan of Study
The following examples are used to illustrate possible course roll outs for a plan of study.  Courses may or may not be offered in an order that fits these examples exactly.  Please refer to the official course rollout when designing a plan of study. Please use the Excel spreadsheet to allow us all the information needed to create an official plan of study.  You may send your excel spreadsheet to Amanda Holley at amanda.lowe@okstate.edu.  Current students may wish to contact  Brenda Johnson, Asst. Director, regarding their plan of study. A Plan of Study should be filed with the Graduate College prior to enrolling in the 17th credit hour of a program.