Rufus Oldenburger Medal
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The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is an award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
recognizing significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. It was established in 1968 in the honor of Rufus Oldenburger.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
recognizing significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. It was established in 1968 in the honor of Rufus Oldenburger.
Recipients
- 1968: Rufus Oldenburger
- 1969: Nathaniel B. NicholsNathaniel B. NicholsNathaniel B. Nichols was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory. He is well-known for his book Theory of Servomechanism, one of the most widely read books in control engineering....
- 1970: John R. RagazziniJohn R. RagazziniJohn Ralph Ragazzini was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini was born in New York and received the degrees of B.S. and E.E. at the City College of New York in 1932 and 1933 and earned the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D...
- 1971: Charles Stark DraperCharles Stark DraperCharles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which under his direction designed and built the Apollo...
- 1972: Albert J. Williams, Jr.
- 1973: Clesson E. Mason
- 1974: Herbert W. Ziebolz
- 1975: Hendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade Bode , was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist], of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.He made important contributions...
and Harry NyquistHarry NyquistHarry Nyquist was an important contributor to information theory.-Personal life:... - 1976: Rudolf E. Kalman
- 1977: Gordon S. BrownGordon S. BrownGordon Stanley Brown was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. From 1959 to 1968, he served as the dean of MIT's engineering school. With his former student Donald P...
and Harold L. Hazen - 1978: Yasundo Takahashi
- 1979: Henry M. PaynterHenry PaynterHenry M. Paynter is known worldwide as the inventor of bond graphs.- Bond graphs :Bond graphs are a unique way of describing dynamic models, designed to model the interaction between different kinds of physical systems, like electrical, mechanical, hydraulical and chemical...
- 1980: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
- 1981: Shih-Ying Lee
- 1982: Bernard Friedland
- 1983: J. Lowen Shearer
- 1984: Herbert H. Richardson
- 1985: Karl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan Åström is a notable Swedish control theorist, who made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control.- Biography :...
- 1986: Eliahu I. Jury
- 1987: Walter R. EvansWalter R. EvansWalter Richard Evans was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.-Biography:He was born on...
- 1988: Robert H. Cannon, Jr.
- 1989: Jaakov Z. Tsypkin
- 1990: Harold ChestnutHarold ChestnutHarold Chestnut was an American electrical engineer, who contributed to the development of the fields of control theory and systems engineering.- Biography :...
- 1991: John G. TruxalJohn G. TruxalJohn G. Truxal was an American control theorist and a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at the State University of New York. Truxal was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is noted for his numerous contributions to control theory, for which he received the Richard E....
- 1992: Isaac M. Horowitz
- 1993: Lotfi A. Zadeh
- 1994: Howard H. RosenbrockHoward Harry RosenbrockHoward Harry Rosenbrock was a leading figure in control theory and control engineering. He was born in Ilford, England in 1920, graduated in 1941 from University College London with a 1st class honors degree in Electrical Engineering. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He...
- 1995: George LeitmannGeorge LeitmannGeorge Leitmann is an American control theorist and an emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is considered to be one of the leading authorities in optimal control theory and its applications.He received his Ph.D...
- 1996: George D. Zames
- 1997: Thomas B. SheridanThomas B. SheridanThomas B. Sheridan is American professor of mechanical engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer of robotics and remote control technology.- Biography :...
- 1998: David G. Luenberger
- 1999: Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi HoThis article is about the Chinese-American mathematician.Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a renowned Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential...
- 2000: Ioan D. Landau
- 2002: Masayoshi TomizukaMasayoshi TomizukaProfessor Masayoshi Tomizuka is a professor in Control Theory in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. He holds the Cheryl and John Neerhout, Jr., Distinguished Professorship Chair, and has supervised more than 90 Ph. D. students to completion. Professor...
- 2003: Vadim Utkin
- 2004: Alistair MacFarlaneAlistair MacFarlaneProfessor Sir Alistair MacFarlane CBE FRS FRSE is a British electrical engineer; leading academic; past Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and past Rector, University of the Highlands and Islands.- Early career :...
- 2005: 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:...
- 2006: J. Karl HedrickJ. Karl HedrickJ. Karl Hedrick is an American control theorist and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made seminal contributions in nonlinear control and estimation. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley he...
- 2007: Suguru Arimoto
- 2008: A. Galip Ulsoy
- 2009: Neville J. Hogan