Modern Control Systems, Global Edition

Richard C. Dorf was Emeriti Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Known as an instructor who was highly concerned with the discipline of electrical engineering and its application to social and economic needs, Professor Dorf wrote and edited several successful engineering textbooks and handbooks, including the best-selling Engineering Handbook, second edition and the third edition of the Electrical Engineering Handbook. Professor Dorf was also co-author of Technology Ventures, a leading textbook on technology entrepreneurship. Professor Dorf was a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ASEE. Dr. Dorf held a patent for the PIDA controller. Robert H. Bishop is the Dean of Engineering at the University of South Florida, President and CEO of the Institute of Applied Engineering, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prior to coming to The University of South Florida, he was the Dean of Engineering at Marquette University and before that a Department Chair and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin where he held the Joe J. King Professorship and was a Distinguished Teaching Professor. Professor Bishop started his engineering career as a member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He authors the well-known textbook for teaching graphical programming entitled Learning with LabVIEW and is also the editor-in-chief of the Mechatronics Handbook. Professor Bishop remains an active teacher and researcher and has authored/co-authored over one hundred and forty-five journal and conference papers. He is a Fellow of the AIAA, a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and active in ASEE and in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).