Bernard Friedland is an American professor of engineering. He is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Biography
Friedland was born in
New York City
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and graduated from
Brooklyn Technical High School
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. He received his B.A., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all from
Columbia University
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.
He taught at
Columbia University
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,
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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, and joined the faculty of
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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in 1990. His research has focused on system and control theory and its applications. For 28 years, he was a manager at
Kearfott Guidance & Navigation.
Friedland is the recipient of the 1982
Rufus Oldenburger Medal
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from the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), citing his "creative extensions to the theory of optimal control and recursive filtering and its practical application to the design of guidance and navigation systems." He is also a fellow of the
ASME
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and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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.
References
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Living people
American engineers
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Columbia University faculty
New York University faculty
Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)