Vice President/General Manager Engineering Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group (retired), The Boeing Company Al Haggerty was vice president and general manager of Engineering for Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile System until March 31st, 2001. He was also the Executive Focal Point for the Lean Enterprise for the unit. Prior to this assignment, he was vice president of Engineering for

Class expectations This is a graduate level class. There is no final exam Grading in the class is based on homework (75%) and on a final written report(25%) The report will be revised during semester and should be 2000-3000 words(8-10 double spaced pages)

Fall 2001 16.313-1 Introduction Root locus methods have Advantages k Good indicator if transient response k Explicity shows location of all closed-loop poles Trade-offs in the design are fairly clear Disadvantages k Requires a transfer function model(poles and zeros) k Difficult to infer all performance metrics k Hard to determine response to steady-state(sinusoids

Controllability Definition: An LTI system is controllable if, for every a*(t d every T>0, there exists an input function u(t),0