The John R. Ragazzini Education Award is an annual award presented by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for contributions to education in automatic control. It is named after John R. Ragazzini, who was the first recipient in 1979.
Recipients must have spent a significant part of their careers in the United States. Contributions recognized by the award include classroom teaching, textbook development, and student mentoring, as well as research in engineering education and the development of online courses.
Recipients The following recipients are listed by the AACC.
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 2025: Dawn Tilbury 2026: Dennis S. Bernstein
See also List of people in systems and control List of engineering awards List of education awards
References
External links AACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award page