- Michael Athans
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Michael Athans Born May 3, 1937
Drama, GreeceResidence United States Citizenship American Fields Control theory Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alma mater University of California, Berkeley Notable awards Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Donald P. Eckman AwardMichael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades , May 3, 1937) 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 (1973) and a Fellow of the AAAS (1977). He is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions in the field of control theory.
Athans received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, 1959, and 1961, respectively.
Awards
- American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award "for outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control" in 1964.
- American Society for Engineering Education Frederick Emmons Terman Award as "the outstanding young electrical engineering educator" in 1969.
- American Control Council's Education Award for "outstanding contributions and distinguished leadership in automatic control education" in 1980.
- IEEE Control Systems Society's 1993 H.W. Bode Prize.
- Honoris causa doctorate from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 2011.[1]
References
- ^ "Cerimónia de Atribuição do Grau de Doutor Honoris Causa". IST. 2011-05-27. http://www.ist.utl.pt/pt/noticias/2011/5/Cerimonia_de_Atribuicao_do_Grau_de_Doutor_Honoris_Causa. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
External links
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award 1979–2000 Hendrik Wade Bode (1979) · Nathaniel B. Nichols (1980) · Charles Stark Draper (1981) · Irving Lefkowitz (1982) · John V. Breakwell (1983) · Richard E. Bellman (1984) · Harold Chestnut (1985) · John Zaborszky (1986) · John C. Lozier (1987) · Walter R. Evans (1988) · Roger W. Brockett (1989) · Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. (1990) · John G. Truxal (1991) · Rutherford Aris (1992) · Eliahu I. Jury (1993) · Jose B. Cruz, Jr. (1994) · Michael Athans (1995) · Elmer G. Gilbert (1996) · Rudolf E. Kalman (1997) · Lotfi A. Zadeh (1998) · Yu-Chi Ho (1999) · W. Harmon Ray (2000)2001–present A.V. Balakrishnan (2001) · Petar V. Kokotovic (2002) · Kumpati S. Narendra (2003) · Harold J. Kushner (2004) · Gene F. Franklin (2005) · Tamer Başar (2006) · Sanjoy K. Mitter (2007) · Pravin Varaiya (2008) · George Leitmann (2009) · Dragoslav D. Šiljak (2010)Categories:- 1937 births
- Living people
- Greek engineers
- Control theorists
- Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
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