What Control Systems Engineers Do | Control Systems in Practice

The work of a control systems engineer involves more than just designing a controller and tuning it. Over the course of a project, designing the controller might be a relatively small part of your day-to-day job. Depending on the size and phase of the project, your responsibilities and the groups with which you work will probably vary greatly.

This video walks through the phases of a typical project and describes what it means to be a control systems engineer. It covers the concept formulation phase, in which your job is to help form a broadly defined "need.” The video covers requirements and how a control engineer works with systems engineering to describe the system. We walk through the development phase, in which design, implementation, and evaluation take place and special emphasis is placed on modeling, test, and verification. Finally, the video covers some of a control systems engineer’s responsibilities after the product is in operation.