This edition is updated throughout-offering an increased emphasis on introductory topics and the use of CAD programs, while still providing a solid treatment of advanced topics and derivation techniques. Offering the basic principles of feedback control essential to all specialty areas of engineering, the book first provides a comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals necessary for feedback control system analysis. The second part offers thorough coverage of root locus, frequency response and state feedback techniques. The last part includes a number of modern techniques that are useful to the systems design engineer.