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control engineering
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engineering discipline that applies automatic control theory to design systems with desired behaviors in control environments
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Encyclopedic overview
Control systems play a critical role in space flight.
Control engineering, also known as control systems engineering and, in some European countries, automation engineering, is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at many institutions around the world.
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