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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]

Elmer G. Gilbert
Born	(1930-03-29)29 March 1930
Died	16 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

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]

References

External links

• NAE profile
• Elmer G. Gilbert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• First-Hand: Reminiscences on My Career in Control video on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki
• Faculty History Project at the University of Michigan
• Professional biography from University of Michigan Aerospace
• Cirriculum Vitae
• Obituary from University of Michigan Aerospace

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