Control engineering is a means of managing and measuring performance of process systems in areas from power plants and nuclear reactors to construction companies and manufacturing. The principles of control also extend in activities as diverse as managing risk in the financial sector to studying climate change within science. Fully accredited by both the Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this course is one of three specialist pathways within the field of control systems engineering, which feature significant mathematics and computing content and are therefore designed for graduates in engineering or science. If you wish to embark on a career as a technical specialist in analytical aspects of control engineering or if you are a practising engineer looking to stay abreast of important advances and developments, you may want to consider this course. The achievement of learning outcomes for most of the taught modules is assessed by a combination of coursework assignments, plus University examinations set in January or May. Examinations count for 50%-60% of assessment in the first stage of the programme, depending on the options chosen; the remainder being largely project work and pieces of coursework. On successful completion, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of control engineering and the constituent components of a control system and analyse the behaviour using appropriate mathematical tools; assess the performance of a system via simulation and interpret the results quantitatively, e.g. numerically and/or statistically; evaluate and implement control algorithms and know their practical limitations; and understand and conceptualise a given complex problem and produce an appropriate model to generalise at a higher level of abstraction.