Mission Statement
The Center's mission is to
include stimulating interdisciplinary research in control science and dynamical
system theory, coordinating scholarly and scientific activity of these areas
within College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and the University and
cooperating with relevant industrial firms in the Minnesota region.
Overview
The CSDy Center was built on a tradition of innovation by
introducing several programs to enhance the learning environment and to enrich
the educational opportunities afforded to our students. Faculty are drawn from
the Departments of Aerospace Engineering and
Mechanics, Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science, Computer Science and
Engineering, Electrical and Computer
Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,
and the School of Mathematics all in
the College of Science and Engineering
(CSE)..
The wide spectrum of its faculty's expertise indicates the
Center's strong focus on interdisciplinary research within CSE. The Center also
provides a significant theoretical component for hardware and experimentally
oriented projects like CSE's Microtechnology
Lab, as well as an applied aspect of the Institute of Mathematics and Its
Applications (IMA) and other
Centers
for Research and Education in CSE. Maintaining constructive relationships
between our faculty and our students is an important component for our success.
We provide our students with more personal attention and guidance, which allows
the students to work more closely with some of the most noted leaders in their
fields.
Besides publishing research results of their scientific work
related to the program, CSDy faculty supervise doctoral students with Ph.D.
theses in the areas of control science and dynamical systems. Specifically, we
have broad interest in numerical computation, robust control, nonlinear
control, linear and nonlinear dynamical systems,and image processing to name a
few.
Since the Center draws faculty from a number of disciplines,
its students' programs can reflect various emphases. Major course work normally
should be selected from those courses in science, mathematics, engineering and
other fields that are particularly relevant. All candidates are required to
attain a high level of mathematical proficiency. Financial aid in the form of
assistantships are administered through individual departments rather than the
CSDy Center. Also, assistantships and fellowships are available under the
National Science Foundation and other government research grants administered
by the CSE faculty.
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