John R. Ragazzini Award

The John R. Ragazzini Education Award is an annual accolade bestowed by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) since 1979,^[1][2][3] named in honor of John R. Ragazzini, a pioneering American electrical engineer and educator.^[4][5][6][7] This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to education in the field of automatic control.

Overview

The award celebrates those who have made significant advancements in control education in the United States, either through teaching, textbook authorship, mentoring, or other forms of educational activity that promote the discipline of automatic control. It is one of the highest honors in the field of control education and underscores the commitment to academic excellence and innovation in engineering education.

Recipients

• 1979: John R. Ragazzini
• 1980: Michael Athans
• 1981: Yasundo Takahashi
• 1982: Arthur E. Bryson
• 1983: Charles A. Desoer
• 1984: H. M. Paynter
• 1985: Gene F. Franklin
• 1986: Thomas Kailath
• 1987: George J. Thaler
• 1988: Wallace E. Vander Velde
• 1989: W. Harmon Ray
• 1990: Kumpati S. Narendra
• 1991: Michael J. Rabins
• 1992: Thomas F. Edgar
• 1993: Dale E. Seborg
• 1995: J. Boyd Pearson
• 1996: David M. Auslander
• 1997: William R. Perkins
• 1998: Peter Dorato
• 1999: Katsuhiko Ogata
• 2000: Hassan K. Khalil
• 2001: Dimitri P. Bertsekas
• 2002: Robert F. Stengel
• 2003: Stephen P. Boyd
• 2004: Mark W. Spong
• 2005: S. Shankar Sastry
• 2006: Masayoshi Tomizuka
• 2007: Manfred Morari
• 2008: Stephen Yurkovich
• 2009: George Stephanopoulos
• 2010: Tzyh Jong Tarn
• 2011: James B. Rawlings
• 2013: Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
• 2014: Roger W. Brockett
• 2015: Magnus Egerstedt
• 2016: Brian D. O. Anderson
• 2017: Miroslav Krstić
• 2018: Frank L. Lewis
• 2019: Richard M. Murray
• 2020: Naomi Leonard
• 2021: Graham Goodwin
• 2022: Bonnie Ferri
• 2023: Richard D. Braatz
• 2024: John D. Hedengren

See also

• List of people in systems and control
• List of engineering awards
• American Automatic Control Council
• List of education awards

References

1. "AACC Awards". 2013 American Control Conference. Washington, DC, US. 2013. pp. 1–3. doi:10.1109/ACC.2013.6579793.
2. "AACC awards for 2005". Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference. Portland, OR, US. 2005. pp. 12–18. doi:10.1109/ACC.2005.1469893.
3. "AACC Awards 5 awards". 2019 American Control Conference (ACC). Philadelphia, PA, US. 2019. pp. 1–5. doi:10.23919/ACC.2019.8814605.
4. Ragazzini, John R.; Zadeh, Lotfi A. (1952). "The analysis of sampled-data systems". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part II: Applications and Industry. 71 (5): 225–234.
5. Ragazzini, John R.; Randall, Robert H.; Russell, Frederick A. (1947). "Analysis of problems in dynamics by electronic circuits". Proceedings of the IRE. 35 (5): 444–452.
6. Bergen, R. Arthur; Ragazzini, R. John (1954). "Sampled-data processing techniques for feedback control systems". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part II: Applications and Industry. 73 (5): 236–247.
7. Zadeh, Lotfi A.; Ragazzini, John R. (1950). "An extension of Wiener's theory of prediction". Journal of Applied Physics. 21 (7): 645–655.

External links

• AACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award page