Description: To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems technology either in design and implementation or project management.

Prize: $2,000, Plaque, and travel expenses to the CDC for one recipient (round trip restricted (minimal) coach air fare, conference registration and two hotel nights).

Funding: Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Eligibility: Either an individual or a team.

Presentation: Presented annually at the Awards Ceremony of the CSS during the CDC in December.

Nominations: A nomination letter and up to four additional supporting letters describing the outstanding contribution to control systems technology should be submitted electronically to the Chair of the Control Systems Technology Award Committee below by May 15. The names and addresses of the individuals who have been asked to provide additional supporting letters must be included in the nomination latter. If additional supporting materials are submitted, they must be limited to a maximum of ten pages.

Contact:
Dr. Siva Banda
AFRL/VACA
2210 Eigth St.
Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7531
Phone: (937)255-8677
Fax: (937)656-4000
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Past Recipients of the Control Systems Technology Award

2009
Giovanni Cherubini, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Mark Lantz, Angeliki Pantazi, Haralampos Pozidis, Hugo Rothuizen and Abu Sebastian, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland and Reza Moheimani, University of Newcastle, Australia
for nanopositioning for MEMS-based storage and other applications

2008
Tariq Samad, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions
for technology development, demonstration, and commercialization that span a number of application domains: process industries, aerospace vehicles, building automation, and automotive power trains

2007
Andrzej Banaszuk, United Technologies Corporation
for contributions to the areas of control of compressor instabilities, combustion instabilities, and other fluid flow instabilities in aerospace systems

2006
Lalit K. Mestha, Xerox Corporation
for his outstanding contributions in applying control systems technology to Particle Accelerators and Digital Printing Systems

2005
Andrew Packard, University of California, Berkeley, Gary Balas, University of Minnesota
for their outstanding contributions to control systems technology by developing state-of-the art control algorithms and enabling software for use in industrial problems, for making modern robust control tools accessible to practicing engineers, and for their leadership role in the field of control engineering

2004
Banavar Sridhar, NASA AMES Research Center
for the development of modeling and simulation techniques for multivehicle traffic networks and advanced air traffic management systems through innovative application of control systems concepts
2003
Jeffrey A. Cook, Ford Motor Company, Jessy W. Grizzle and Jing Sun, University of Michigan
for the development of fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly automotive powertrains through innovative application of control theory

2002
Dimitry Gorinevsky and Greg Stewart, Honeywell
in recognition for their innovative application of modern identification and control methods to the papermaking process

2001
James F. Antaki and Bradley E. Paden
for their development of the StreamLiner artificial heart, a mechatronics design that epitomizes the integration of control with electromechanical systems to achieve a novel design that has the potential to save over 35,000 lives per year

2000
Siva S. Banda, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

1999
Michael J. Piovoso
for research, development, and implementation of state of the art process control in the chemical manufacturing industry

1998
Guy Dumont, Dept. ECE and UBC Pulp & Paper Central, University of British Columbia
for innovative industrial applications of adaptive control

1997
Joe Chow, Rensselaer Poly Inst
for pioneering contributions to time-scale analysis of large power systems

1996
Harvey T. Banks

1995
Suresh M. Joshi, NASA Langley Research Center
for the development and application of control systems methodology to light weight, flexible spacecraft systems and structures

1994
Rajan Suri and Gregory Diehl
for the Creation, development, implementation and management automation planning software, ManuPlan and its derivative MPX during the period 1986-1993

1993
Alan Laub
for contributions to CACSD that have fundamentally changed the research and applications environment for control systems design

1992
George Meyer

1991
Gunner Bengsston

1990
Ken Lorrel (and the Lockheed Team)

1989
Edgar Bristol