Donald P. Eckman Award
Encyclopedia
The Donald P. Eckman Award is an award given by the American Automatic Control Council
recognizing outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory
. Together with the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
, the Eckman Award is one of the most prestigious awards in control theory.
American Automatic Control Council
The American Automatic Control Council is an organization founded in 1956 for research in control theory. It is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control....
recognizing outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory
Control theory
Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...
. Together with the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award given by the American Automatic Control Council for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman...
, the Eckman Award is one of the most prestigious awards in control theory.
Recipients
- 1964: Michael AthansMichael AthansMichael Athans is a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the AAAS...
- 1965: John BollingerJohn BollingerJohn A. Bollinger is an American author, financial analyst, contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, John Bollinger, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-0-07-137368-5, has been translated into eight languages.Chinese ,...
- 1966: Roger Bakke
- 1967: Roger W. BrockettRoger W. BrockettRoger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.-Biography:...
- 1968: Robert E. Larson
- 1969: W. Harmon RayW. Harmon RayWillis Harmon Ray is an American chemical engineer and a Vilas Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.He is a Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Ray is a noted control theorist, and in 2000, he...
- 1970: John Seinfeld
- 1971: Raman Mehra
- 1972: Cecil L. Smith
- 1973: Edison Tse
- 1974: Timothy L. Johnson
- 1975: Alan S. Willsky
- 1976: Robert W. Atherton
- 1977: Nils R. Sandell, Jr.
- 1978: Narendra K. Gupta
- 1979: Joe Hong Chow
- 1980: Manfred MorariManfred MorariManfred Morari is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983 and the California Institute of...
- 1981: Rajan Suri
- 1982: Bruce Hajek
- 1983: John C. Doyle
- 1984: Mark A. Shayman
- 1985: P.R. Kumar
- 1986: Yaman Arkun
- 1987: Rahmatallah Shoureshi
- 1988: Bijoy K. Ghosh
- 1989: Pramod P. Khargonekar
- 1990: Shankar S. SastryShankar S. SastryS. Shankar Sastry is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently holds the Nippon Electronics Corporation Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business. He was elected to the National Academy...
- 1991: Carl N. Nett
- 1992: Stephen P. Boyd
- 1993: Munther A. Dahleh
- 1994: Kameshwar Poolla
- 1995: Andrew Packard
- 1996: Jeff S. ShammaJeff S. ShammaJeff S. Shamma is an American control theorist and the Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Control Systems and Controls at the Georgia Institute of Technology...
- 1997: Richard M. Murray
- 1998: Ioannis Kanellakopoulos
- 1999: Andrew R. Teel
- 2000: Richard D. BraatzRichard D. BraatzRichard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for his research in control theory and its applications to chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials systems. He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald...
- 2001: Dawn M. Tilbury
- 2002: Ilya Kolmanovsky
- 2003: Claire J. TomlinClaire J. TomlinClaire Jennifer Tomlin is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.-Life:...
- 2004: Panagiotis D. Christofides
- 2005: Pablo A. Parrilo
- 2006: Murat Arcak
- 2007: Daniel Liberzon
- 2008: Asuman E. Ozdaglar
- 2009: Paulo Tabuada
- 2010: Domitilla Del Vecchio
- 2011: Hana El-Samad