Elmer G. Gilbert

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Elmer G. Gilbert
Born
(1930-03-29)29 March 1930
Died16 June 2019(2019-06-16) (aged 89)
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Awards Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1996)
IEEE Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Control theory

Elmer Grant Gilbert was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957. [1]

He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award [2] [3] (the citation reads: "for pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms") and the 1996 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council. [4]

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References

  1. "Elmer Gilbert | Michigan Engineering". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  2. "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE . Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  3. "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  4. "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council . Retrieved February 10, 2013.