Rufus Oldenburger Medal

The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious Society award for lifetime achievements in automatic control. Inaugurated in 1968, the medal recognizes significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. Such achievements may be, for example, in the areas of education, research, development, innovation, and service to the field and profession.

The award was established to honor Rufus Oldenburger for his distinctive achievements in the field and for his service to the Society and the Division. The list of recipients is a true honor role of major contributors to the science and profession of control.
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Form of Award: $2000, bronze medal and certificate
Limitation(s): None
Administrative Responsibility: Dynamic Systems & Control Division
Nomination Deadline: February 1
E-mail: persaudl@asme.org
Awarded By: Committee on Honors (COH)

Rufus Oldenburger Medalists

2024 Petros A. Ioannou
2023 Davor Hrovat
2022 Wayne J. Book
2021 Sosale S. Sastry
2020 Mark W. Spong
2019 Huei Peng
2018 Roberto Horowitz
2017 Miroslav Krstic
2016 Jean-Jacques Slotine
2015 Manfred Morari
2014 Robert R. Bitmead
2013 Graham C. Goodwin
2012 Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
2011 Haruhiko H. Asada
2010 Rolf Isermann
2009 Neville J. Hogan
2008 A. Galip Ulsoy
2007 Suguru Arimoto
2006 J. Karl Hedrick
2005 Roger W. Brockett
2004 Alistair MacFarlane
2003  Vadim Utkin
2022 Masayoshi
Tomizuka
2000 Ioan D. Landau
1999 Yu-Chi Ho
1998 David G. Luenberger
1997 Thomas B. Sheridan
1996 George D. Zames
1995 George Leitmann
1994 Howard H. Rosenbrock
1993 Lotfi A. Zadeh
1992 Issac M. Horowitz
1991 John G. Truxal
1990 Harold Chestnut
1989 Jaakov Z. Tsypkin
1988 Robert H. Cannon, Jr.
1987 Walter R. Evans
1986 Eliahu I. Jury
1985 Karl J. Astrom
1984 Herbert H. Richardson
1983 J. Lowen Shearer
1982 Bernard Friedland
1981 Shih-Ying Lee
1980 Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
1979 Henry M. Paynter
1978 Yasundo Takahashi
1977 Gordon S. Brown & Harold L. Hazen
1976 Rudolf Emil Kalman
1975 Hendrik W. Bode & Harry Nyquist
1974 Herbert W. Ziebolz
1973 Clesson E. Mason
1972 Albert J. Williams, Jr.
1971 Charles Stark Draper
1970 John R. Ragazzini
1969 Nathaniel B. Nichols
1968 Rufus Oldenburger

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