Elmer G. Gilbert

Elmer Grant Gilbert (March 29, 1930 – June 16, 2019) 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.

Gilbert was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award (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.

Gilbert died on June 16, 2019, at the age of 89.

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NAE profile
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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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1930 births
2019 deaths
American aerospace engineers
Control theorists
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Scientists from Michigan
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE