Michael Athans

Michael 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.
• American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1995.^[1]
• Honoris causa doctorate from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 2011.^[2]

References

1. ↑ "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved 2013-02-10. 
2. ↑ "Cerimónia de Atribuição do Grau de Doutor Honoris Causa". IST. 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 

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