AACC AWARDS

Control Engineering Practice Award

Name Change of AACC Education Award

Past awards recipients

Nominations Process

Bellman, Eckman, Ragazzini, Practice Nomination Form

Call for Awards Nominations for 2000

Announcement of the AACC Awards

General Information

The American Automatic Control Council sponsors five awards. These awards are given to recognize excellence in scientific, technological, or educational contributions to automatic control.

The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists.The recipient must have spent a significant part of his/her career in the USA. The awardee is strongly encouraged to give a plenary presentation at the ACC Awards Luncheon.

The Donald P. Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years at the time of the award. Contributions may be technical or scientific publications, theses, patents, inventions, or combinations of the above in the field of automatic control made while the nominee was a resident of the USA. Supporting documentation must include a full endorsement by at least one responsible supervisor.

The John R. Ragazzini Award is given to recognize outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form. These contributions can be from any source and in any media, i.e., electronic, publications, courses, etc.

Control Engineering Practice Award is given to one individual or one team to be selected from those nominated for significant contribution to the advancement of control practice. The primary criterion for selection will be for the application and implementation of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems. Achievement and usefulness will be evidenced by the benefit to society and by the degree of acceptance by those who use control as a tool. The work on which the nomination is based must have been performed while the nominated individual or at least one member of the team was a resident of the USA. The award consists of a certificate and an honorarium. In the event that the winner is a team, each member of the team will receive a certificate and the honorarium will be divided equally among the team members.

The O. Hugo Schuck Award is given to recognize the best two papers presented at the previous ACC. One award is for a paper emphasizing contributions to theory and the other emphasizing significant or innovative applications. The papers must have been presented by the awardee or a coauthor. Criteria for selection include the quality of the written and oral presentation, the technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality.

NOMINATIONS

All information and supporting documents for a nomination are to be included with the nomination form and seven (7) copies are to be sent by December 1, 2000 to: Prof. Abraham Haddad, Dept. of ECE, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-3118. The form is to facilitate making and evaluating nominations. Nominations prepared in other ways will be considered if they include the required information.

All requested information must be provided. Should additional space be needed for any item, additional sheets may be used and attached to the nomination form. The citation statements should be carefully prepared. Specific identification of the work on which the nomination is based and an evaluation and appraisal of the nominee's accomplishments, particularly the work to be recognized by the proposed award, are of great importance and should be prepared with care.

At least three (3) but not more than five (5) brief supporting letters from colleagues (peers) or former students should accompany a given nomination. To be useful, these letters should contain factual information not provided elsewhere in the nomination.

Reprints or preprints may be attached if the subject treated relates substantially to the work on which a nomination is based and if this material is not readily available. The number of such papers may not exceed five (5). Seven (7) copies of each should accompany the nomination.

The deadline for all awards is December 1. Further information can be obtained from the AACC Secretariat: Prof. Abraham Haddad, Dept. of ECE, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-3118, Phone: (847) 491-8175, Fax: (847) 491-4455, E-mail: ahaddad@ece.nwu.edu.

Best Paper Nomination Form

Bellman, Eckman, Ragazzini, Practice Nomination Form

AACC Awards Nominations due December 1, 2000

Nominations for the five AACC (American Automatic Control Council) awards for 2001 are now being solicited. The awards consist of a certificate and an honorarium, and they will be presented at the Awards Banquet during the 2001 ACC to be held in Arlington, VA on June 26, 2001. Nomination packages should be prepared in accordance with the AACC Award Nomination Form and include the following: biographical information, a statement identifying and evaluating the accomplishments on which the nomination is based (not to exceed two double spaced pages), a minimum of three and a maximum of five reference letters, a current list of publications and patents, and any additional supporting material that could have bearing on the award. All materials should be collected in a single package and the original together with six (6) copies should be submitted at the same time. The nomination package is due by December 1, 2000. It should be sent to:

The awards are described as follows:

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. For distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control. The nominee is to have spent a significant part of his or her career in the United States. Posthumous nominations are not allowed.

Donald P. Eckman Award. For outstanding accomplishments by a young engineer in the field of automatic control. Nominees must be younger than 35 years at the time of the award. The award is based on contributions made while the nominee was a resident of the United States.

John R. Ragazzini Award. For outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form. The awardee normally is a teacher, but there is no formal requirement that nominees be members of a university faculty.

Control Engineering Practice Award. For significant contributions to the advancement of control practice including the application and implementation of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems.

O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. For the best two papers presented at the previous American Control Conference. The papers must have been presented by the author or a co-author at the conference. Selection criteria include quality of the written and oral presentation, technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality, with one award emphasizing contributions to theory and the other emphasizing significant or innovative applications.

The Chairman of the AACC Awards Committee for 2000-01 is Dr. David Auslander, of the University of California at Berkeley.

Past Award Recipients

Awards of the American Automatic Control Council

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

The award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control. The Bellman Control Heritage Award is the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists. Richard E. Bellman, for whom the award is named, was an applied mathematician who pioneered the development of system theory as an academic discipline in the 1950s and 1960s. The Bellman Award is unique among the AACC awards in that it is made for lifetime contributions to control and systems engineering. Such contributions may cover a range of technical areas or may have been put into practice in several different fields. The winner of the Bellman Award usually has been involved with the interaction of control or system theory with other scientific disciplines, with the engineering profession, and/or with the implications of controls for society at large.

Donald P. Eckman Award

The award is given for outstanding accomplishments by a young engineer in the field of automatic control. It was established in memory of Donald P. Eckman, who made important contributions to control theory and practice in the 1950's and 1960's but who died tragically in an automobile accident in 1962. Nominees must be younger than 35 years at the time of the award. The Eckman Award often is given for key contributions to a single field of research, based on the discovery of a new phenomenon or design method or scientific principle. In practice, the award usually has been given to individuals who make theoretical contributions that have practical implications and who show considerable promise for leadership in the field. The development of devices or significant contributions to engineering practice also may be recognized.

John R. Ragazzini Award

The award is given for outstanding contributions to education in the field of automatic control. Education is viewed as a process that extends beyond the classroom or the advising functions of a particular faculty member. The Education Award normally has gone to university professors, although there is no formal requirement that awardees be faculty members. Accomplishments of former students may be considered in making the award.

Control Engineering Practice Award

The award is given to one individual or one team to be selected from those nominated for significant contribution to the advancement of control practice. The primary criterion for selection will be for the application and implementation of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems. Achievement and usefulness will be evidenced by the benefit to society and by the degree of acceptance by those who use control as a tool. The work on which the nomination is based must have been performed while the nominated individual or at least one member of the team was a resident of the USA. The award will consist of a certificate and an honorarium. In the event that the winner is a team, each member of the team will receive a certificate and the honorarium will be divided equally among the team members.

O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award

The award is given for the best two papers presented at the previous year's American Control Conference. The award is named for O. Hugo Schuck, a pioneer in the practice of flight control design at Honeywell, Inc., and later at NASA. This award was established with the purpose not only of recognizing technical contributions but for the manner and effectiveness with which they are communicated to the community at the American Control Conference. Selection criteria include quality of the written and oral presentation, technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality. One award is for a paper emphasizing contributions to theory and the second for a paper emphasizing significant or innovative applications.

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