ELEC3114 Control Systems (UNSW Sydney): rated 4.1/5 overall, difficulty 0.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 0.0/5 across 9 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
ELEC3114 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 控制系统
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Undergraduate Level 3
Handbook year: 2026
Control systems engineering, a highly interdisciplinary field in Engineering, draws extensively from foundational courses in Electrical Engineering due to the complex nature of modern control systems. These systems integrate multiple components including electromechanical, hydraulic, and embedded systems into a unified structure.
ELEC3114 has 9 scored reviews: overall 4.1/5 · usefulness 0.0 · difficulty 0.0 · would-recommend 0.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 review by UNSW students on UNSW Wall (5.0/5 overall); 8 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 4.0/5).
On Reddit: "ELEC3114: great. Easy to score high in if you put in the work. ELEC3106: ok but no real slides provided and taught in a ad-hoc unstructured way. ELEC4602: steer clear. Useless for Aus industry, marked hard (including 60% final), a lot of the content is not intuitive / logical an…"
On Reddit: "Heyo I did ELEC3114 in place of MMAN3200 this year in Term 2. I had to talk to the Mech school and email Arash (The lecturer) to do so. The required knowledge that you'll need is mostly just Laplace and some ELEC1111 basic circuit knowledge I decided to do ELEC3114 instead of MM…"
The course panel on UNSW Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is ELEC3114 hard?
A: Students rate ELEC3114's difficulty 0.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it on the easier side.
Q: Is ELEC3114 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 9 reviews: would-recommend 0.0/5, usefulness 0.0/5, overall 4.1/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ELEC3114, and when is it offered?
A: ELEC3114 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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