Rufus Oldenburger Medal Explained

The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is an award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizing significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. It was established in 1968 in the honor of Rufus Oldenburger.

Recipients

Source: ASME

• 1968: Rufus Oldenburger
• 1969: Nathaniel B. Nichols
• 1970: John R. Ragazzini
• 1971: Charles Stark Draper
• 1972: Albert J. Williams, Jr.
• 1973: Clesson E. Mason
• 1974: Herbert W. Ziebolz
• 1975: Hendrik Wade Bode and Harry Nyquist
• 1976: Rudolf E. Kálmán
• 1977: Gordon S. Brown and Harold L. Hazen
• 1978:
• 1979: Henry M. Paynter
• 1980: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
• 1981: Shih-Ying Lee^[1]
• 1982: Bernard Friedland
• 1983: Jesse Lowen Shearer
• 1984: Herbert H. Richardson
• 1985: Karl Johan Åström
• 1986: Eliahu I. Jury
• 1987: Walter R. Evans
• 1988: Robert H. Cannon, Jr.
• 1989:
• 1990: Harold Chestnut
• 1991: John G. Truxal
• 1992: Isaac M. Horowitz
• 1993: Lotfi A. Zadeh
• 1994: Howard H. Rosenbrock
• 1995: George Leitmann
• 1996: George D. Zames
• 1997: Thomas B. Sheridan
• 1998: David G. Luenberger
• 1999: Yu-Chi Ho
• 2000: Ioan Doré Landau
• 2002: Masayoshi Tomizuka
• 2003: Vadim Utkin
• 2004: Alistair MacFarlane
• 2005: Roger W. Brockett
• 2006: J. Karl Hedrick
• 2007:
• 2008: A. Galip Ulsoy^[2]
• 2009: Neville J. Hogan
• 2010:
• 2011: Haruhiko Harry Asada
• 2012: Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
• 2013: Graham C. Goodwin
• 2014: Robert R. Bitmead
• 2015: Manfred Morari
• 2016: Jean-Jacques Slotine
• 2017: Miroslav Krstić
• 2018: Roberto Horowitz
• 2019: Huei Peng
• 2020: Mark W. Spong
• 2021: Shankar Sastry
• 2022: Wayne J. Book

See also

• List of people in systems and control
• List of engineering awards
• List of mechanical engineering awards

External links

• Web site: Rufus Oldenburger Medal . . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: O'Leary . Mary Beth . Shih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100 . MIT News . MIT . 8 February 2024.
2. Web site: Ulsoy Receives Oldenburger Medal . University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering . University of Michigan . 8 February 2024.