For courses in Control Theory, in departments of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. Reorganized for use in any length course, this introductory text provides an in-depth, comprehensive treatment of a collection of classical and state-space approaches to control system design. It ties the methods together so that a designer is able to pick the method that best fits the problem at hand. The authors provide case studies and comprehensive examples with close integration of MATLAB throughout.