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This paper presents the development of a new course in the control curriculum dealing with the control of systems subject to parametric uncertainty. This branch of Robust Control has been the subject of intensive research and development over the last 15 years, following a breakthrough in 1978, by the Russian control theorist V. L. Kharitonov. The result of this development is that there now exists a significant number of elegant and practically results in the field of robust control under real parameter uncertainty. This subject is rich in theoretical content, easy to motivate from a practical standpoint and requires just the right level of mathematics to be taught as a fundamental discipline to engineers and scientists.