This book offers a comprehensive treatment of control engineering with a strongbalance of analysis and design, mathematics and practice, and theory and hardware;written in a user-friendly style that has ushered in a refreshing excitement in theteaching and learning of the subject. For a first course at the introductory level, itprovides a solid foundation of frequency-domain design methods for analysis anddesign of continuous time control systems, which form the essentials for industrialpractice.