[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Disambiguation [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] prometheus25 Never got too into those fields. Closest I got was control systems, but I didn't like my prof much: too easy so I just ended up doing the bare minimum.[/quote]Control theory was one of the easiest senior level courses I've taken. Applying it is another matter altogether; analog control systems are a huge pain in the ass to design and implement. We decided to go with this digital microcontroller for our electric drives project this term, and it's so much easier to write some software and let an IC do all the work than it is to figure out the exact values for a bunch of R's and C's and then realize you can't buy the values you need (lol).[/quote] I can understand that! We had to design amplifiers for a class project. It's such a pain getting those [i]just[/i] right to meet the requirements, rather than just uploading to Matlab and filtering through multiplication in the frequency domain. But that's terribly off topic.