Table of Contents: October 1999

Special Section
Guest Editorial

Bonnie S. Heck

36

Undergraduate Control Education in the U.S.

Peter Dorato

38

Enhancing Undergraduate Control Education

Dennis S. Bernstein

40

Control Education: Time for Radical Change

C.C. Bissell

44

Introducing Undergraduate Students to Systems, Control, and Performance
Concepts: Experiences in Teaching a course on Flight Systems

N. Harris McClamroch and Jack Fishstrom

50

Report on the NSF/CSS Workshop on New Directions in Control
Engineering Education

Panos Antsaklis, Tamer Basar, Ray DeCarlo, N. Harris McClamroch,
Mark Spong, and Stephen Yurkovich

53

Features
Modeling and Control of Compressor Flow Instabilities

Frank Willems and Bram de Jager

8

An Internet-Based Real-Time Control Engineering Laboratory

Jamahl W. Overstreet and Anthony Tzes

19

Columns

Lecture Notes: Basic Problems in Stability and Design of Switched Systems

Daniel Liberzon and A. Stephen Morse

59

From Membership Activities: Women in Control

71

Interview: Introducing the CSS President-Elect

74

Departments
From the Editor

2

Calendar

85

President’s Message

4

Feedback

89

News

78

On the Market

90

Ph.D. Dissertations

80

On the Lighter Side

96