terms they will come to know:
state eq'n
root locus
Bode
Nyuist
poles&zeros
Routh,Jury tests
LaPlace
unit circle
bilinear
feedback, feedfwd
freq response
performance specs
Matlab/Octave
transfer function
optimization
robustness
PID
MRAC, MFAC
real-time
compensation
nonlinear
noise
action, clamps,windup,lag
PLC counts (12 bits or 16)
filtering
System ID (DARMA)
char eq'n/eigen
controllable?