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What is a controls engineer?

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Is a controls engineer either:?

1.) able to model systems, comfortable with transfer function/differential equations, bode plots, feedback/feedforward, that apply control theory (zeros, poles, lead-lag, lag-lead, PID compensators) linearize systems, working in matlab/simulink

2.) able to program PLCs for industrial control. familiar with rslogix etc.


I find these very different but sometimes both called control engineering.
 

1 and 2 are just analogue and digital methods of doing the same task. I used to work in SCADA, Supervisory, Control And Data Acquisition. All of what we did was to control a network of TV transmitters via telemetry. We had Processors on site doing "auto" control" and reporting the state of the equipment back to a control centre, which could also read the transmission parameters remotely and control the transmitters remotely.
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chuckey said:
1 and 2 are just analogue and digital methods of doing the same task.
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Not really. 1 i meant to mean either continuous or discrete control.

Maybe I dont fully understand #2. Does working on PLC mean that you analyze bode plots, etc, set gain margins and all or is it more like logic based functionality?
 

Ok i watched this webinar:
**broken link removed**

and i think I now understand the connection between the two better.
 

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