October 2009

Volume 29, Issue 5

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Table of Contents
From the Editor - Back to Square One
About This Issue - About Face
President's Message - So What Is Control Engineering Anyway?
25 Years Ago
Member Activities - Review of Membership Trends
Technical Committee Activities - Technical Committee on Networks and Communications (NetComs)
Applications of Control - Flatness-Based Control of Open-Channel Flow in an Irrigation Canal Using SCADA
People in Control - George Schmidt, Wolfgang Marquardt
Focus on Education - Controlling a Ball and Wheel System Using Full-State-Feedback Linearization
Lecture Notes - The Shapes of Nyquist Plots
Bookshelf - Book Announcements
Conference Reports - Advances in Discrete Event, Nonlinear, and Stochastic Systems Modeling and Control: A Symposium in Honor of Steven I. Marcus
CSS News - Minutes of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting
Conference Calendar
Random Inputs - Silent Guardian