The Control Systems Education website was created by Len Klochek in January of 2025 to provide educational, design, and coding information related to the control systems field of engineering. It is intended that the material can be used freely for the purposes of enhancing education with an emphasis on combining theory with practical applications using microcontrollers.

The design of the Chamber Temperature Control System was created to allow many different control system concepts to be explored with a real rather than simulated system. These concepts relate to what will be found in an industrial setting and they include:

• Process Dynamics (Time Constants, Dead Time, Process Gain)
• Controllers
• Tuning PID Controllers with Ziegler Nichols Methods
• Autotuning PID Controllers
• Auto/Manual Operation
• Reverse and Direct Action
• Disturbances
• Coding the PID Control System

A series of 6 experiments are included to explore these concepts.

The C/C++ code implemented using the Open Souce Arduino IDE is heavily commented

Tutorial material is also included to develop the control theory