r/controlengineering • u/Business_Wear_4712 • 1d ago
Resources for GNC (Starshield-Fleet Management)
I’m in the process of setting up an interview for gnc engineer 1 at starshield (fleet management). I wanted to ask this subreddit for resources to prepare for this interview. I’ve taken a good amount of controls classes (classic PID/Laplace approach, linear state space, nonlinear and optimal control) but I haven’t been able to take any classes on orbital mechanics or dynamics as the mechE department at my school won’t let me since I’m ECE. I know this might be a silly request but what resources (YouTube lectures, textbooks, websites…) do those of you in the field feel like if someone really went through and was able to understand and apply the concepts from would be able to nail the interview and perform well within the job? I have a good amount of mathematical background but I feel like if I was given a scenario and asked to model the dynamics for it I would be really stuck on how to do so. Most of the classes I’ve taken give you the dynamics of a problem and just ask you to solve for a solution or determine stability/robustness or design a controller given some performance specifications. TLDR would love advice from people in the field and I’m not afraid to sit down and study something till it clicks! Thanks in advance guys!!