Instructor: Prof. Sachin Patwardhan, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay. This course has been designed to introduce concepts of multivariable state feedback controller synthesis using discrete time state space models. Development of control relevant dynamic models is viewed as an integral part of the process of controller synthesis. Thus, the course begins with the development of continuous time and discrete time linear perturbation models (state space and transfer functions) starting from mechanistic models commonly used in engineering. However, in practice, a mechanistic dynamic model may not be available for a system. In such a situation, control relevant discrete dynamic black-box models can be developed using perturbation test data. Development of output error, ARX and ARMAX models from time series data and constructing state realizations of the identified models is dealt next.