An efficient controller based on joint between original proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller and fast genetic algorithm (FGA) is proposed to enhance the transient response of high order synchronous machine. PID controller has several advantages in practical design of synchronous machine compared with another controller。The transient response parameters with PID controller of synchronous machine are reasonable, but they susceptible to the local minima problem and not adequate. Therefore, FGA is used to overcome this problem and to enhance the transient response. Performance of the proposed controller is tested through a high order synchronous machine model and then compared with the original PID controller. In this paper the weak coupling relationship between the automatic voltage controller (AVR) and automatic generation control (AGC) in the synchronous machine has been proved to simplify the overall model. The results demonstrate that, the proposed controller is an efficiency and better than a conventional PID controller.