@article{70d3a9c54dee46e0be7d88477ec51d00,
title = "People in control",
abstract = "In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM), we speak with Robert Stengel, who is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. Rob has worked on diverse applications in aircraft dynamics and control, and he has also contributed to biomedical applications, including cardiovascular monitoring and cancer detection. In 2002 he received the Ragazzini education award from the AACC as well as major awards from AIAA and the FAA. He is the author of numerous research papers and two books, including a classic text on optimal control reprinted by Dover and a recent textbook on flight dynamics published by Princeton University Press. We also speak with Martha (Gallivan) Grover, who is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. Martha works on modeling and identification for thin-film, polymer, and batch processing.",
keywords = "Aerodynamics, Aerospace engineering, Aircraft, Atmospheric modeling, Books, Materials, Vehicle dynamics",
author = "Rob Stengel and Martha Grover",
note = "Funding Information: George J. Pappas is the Joseph Moore Professor in the De- partment of Electri cal and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member and former director of the GRASP lab and is the deputy dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on con trol theory and, in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierar chical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, flight management systems, distributed robotics, and biomolecular networks. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2002, the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2002, and the Eliahu Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research from the Department of Electrical Engineer ing and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, in 1999. Funding Information: Rob: My first foray into the biomed ical arena was at the Draper Laboratory in 1970, where a number of us asked the question, “Now that we have gone to the moon, what shall we do next?” Our answer was to develop a bedside biomedical computer that would assist doctors in making and interpreting cardiovascular measurements. For a year, we worked closely with cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital getting to know each other{\textquoteright}s problems and capabilities. We wrote a proposal to the Public Health Service, which was promptly turned down because the MDs weren{\textquoteright}t engineers and the engineers weren{\textquoteright}t MDs. Ultimately, a small project was funded by NASA{\textquoteright}s technology transfer program. The modern EKG machine bears a strong resemblance to our goals for the bedside biomedical computer. Funding Information: Feng Lin received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineer ing from Shanghai Jiao-Tong Univer sity, Shanghai, China, in 1982 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electri cal engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. From 1987 to 1988 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Uni versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1988, he has been with the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, robust control, and their applications. He has worked as an automotive control consultant for GM, Ford, and Hitachi. He coauthored a paper that received a George Axelby outstanding paper award from IEEE Control Systems Society. He is also a recipient of a research initiation award from the National Science Foundation, an outstanding teaching award from Wayne State University, a faculty research award from ANR Pipeline Company, and a research award from Ford. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and he is the author of Robust Control Design: An Optimal Control Approach. Funding Information: He received the Teaching Award from the AIChE Student Chapter of UCLA in 1997, a CAREER award from the National Science Founda tion in 1998, the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Com puting and Systems Technology Division of AIChE in 2008, and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2001. He received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in both 2000 and 2004, and the Donald P. Eckman Award in 2004, all from the American Auto matic Control Council.",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/MCS.2009.932328",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "24--33",
journal = "IEEE Control Systems Magazine",
issn = "0888-0611",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "3",
}