Control systems topics include open and closed loop control systems with applications to level and flow of fluids; electrical, electromechanical, and thermal systems; position and speed control and the principles of controlling servomechanisms and stability tests. Topics also include system performance under the action of proportional (P), integral (I), derivative (D) compensation controllers, time and frequency response measurements and computer simulation of control systems using MATLAB and SIMULINK software.

On the other hand measuring devices experiments focus on transducers and their construction, experimental identification of static characteristics of sensing elements, ideal straight line, non-linearity, sensitivity, hysteresis, resolution and error bands. It also uses experiments to demonstrate loading effects in measurement systems, for deflection bridges and amplifiers and to demonstrate analogue to digital conversion and data acquisition.