Magazine Editorials

2011

February

• Business Plans
• Late Is Early

April

• Exquisite Coupling
• Waste Not

June

• Rules Rule
• Mystery World

August 

• Hubble Trouble, Oil, and Bubble
• Colorful Curvature
• Longitudinal Aircraft Dynamics and the Instantaneous Acceleration Center of Rotation: The case of the vanishing zeros

October

• Hidden Factors
• Envelopes

December

• Ports And Parts
• CDC Photo Album

2010

February

• Look Before You Predict
• Second Decade

April

• The Tools That Jack Built
• Quieter Clocks

June

• Plagiarize This!
• Battery on Board

August

• Micro Essays
• Belts And Loops

October

• More Mini Essays
• Back Story

December

• Guessing and Games
• Across the Board 

2009

February

• Around and Around      
• Noble Proposal

April

• Flow, Jump, Flow
• Al-Khwarizmi and the NBA

June

• What If
• Symmetric Serpents

August

• Fortuitous Errors
• Faux Optimal

October

• Back to Square One
• About Face

December 

• KPCOFGS
• What’s Inside

2008

February

• Metaphorical Pachyderm        
• Newton’s Frame
• Where Art Thou?

April

• Medley
• Questionable Publicity

June

• Pointillism
• Fear of Finding

August

• Global Viewpoint
• What’s Wrong?

October

• Dream Topic
• Seeds and Weeds

December 

• Brick by Brick
• Box Views

2007

February

• Rhymes with Mouth
• Surprisingly Nostalgic

April

• Breakdown Gain
• Joules in Motion

June

• Classical Wrap Up
• ODEs with Differentiated Inputs
• The Final Value Theorem Revisited
• Nonminimum-Phase Zeros

August

• Fuel Me Once
• The Network Era

October

• Guilt Free
• Hven and Now
• Ivory Ghost
• Space Weather Forecasting

December

• Cherished Myths
• Speak Different

2006

February

• Profit and Prophecy
• About This Issue

April

• Entropy and Currency

June

• About This Issue
• Surprise

August

• Digital Divide
• Hidden Things

October

• Celerity
• Optimization R Us

December

• Quiet, Please?
• Hilbert and Dilbert 

2005

February

• Beyond the Dark Side

April

• Hardwear and Footware

June

• The Quanser DC Motor Control Trainer 
• Yes, I’m an EE

August

• Chalk It Up
• Book Review – Bicycling Science, by David G. Wilson with J. Papadopoulos

October

• Delayed Substitution

December

• Calibrating A Triaxial Accelerometer – Magnetometer 

2004

February

• Your Magazine

April

• Controlling Change

June

• Economics
• Book Review – When Least Is Best

August

• Infrastructure

October

• Innovations in Undergraduate Control Education
• Lessons of Warfare

December

• A Gallery of Cover Art
• Theorem and Look-up Table  

2003

April

• Introducing Signals, Systems, and Control in Grades K Through 12

August

• Dimension Obsession 

October

• Decision and Control 
• Setting Up and Running a Control Research Laboratory
• Shape Change Actuation for Precision Attitude Control
• Book Review: Modeling and Simulation for Automatic Control 
• Experiments for Control Research

December

• Control Engineering Month

2002

April

• Feedback Control: An Invisible Thread in the History of Technology
• The History of Control: From Idea to Technology 

August

• What Makes Some Control Problems Hard?

2001

June

• A Plant Taxonomy for Designing Control Experiments

August

• Sensor Performance Specifications

October

• Naive Control of the Double Integrator

2000

April

• The Frequency Domain

June

• Peer Review

1999

February

• A Student’s Guide to Research 

October

• Enhancing Undergraduate Control Education

December

• On Bridging the Theory / Practice Gap

1998

April

• Control Experiments and What I Learned From Them: A Personal Journey

1997

August

• A Student’s Guide to Classical Control