Graham Clifford Goodwin (born 20 April 1945

Broken Hill, New South Wales Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

) is an Australian Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle (UON), informally known as Newcastle University, is a public university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1965, it has a primary campus in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan. The university als ...

Life

Graham Goodwin is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle. His education includes B.Sc., B.E. and Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales. He won the 1990

M A Sargent Medal The M. A. Sargent Medal is awarded by Engineers Australia for longstanding eminence in science or the practice of electrical engineering. It is named in honour of Michael Anthony (Mike) Sargent, an outstanding Australian electrical engineer. The med ...

, Engineers Australia. In 2010 he was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Field Award and in 2013 he received the Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was twice awarded the International Federation of Automatic Control triannual Best Engineering Text Book Prize. He is a Fellow of IEEE; an Honorary Fellow of Institute of Engineers, Australia; a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering; a Member of the International Statistical Institute; a Fellow of the Royal Society, London and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden and the Technion Israel. Goodwin was appointed an

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in the

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for "distinguished service to tertiary education, and to electrical engineering, as an academic and researcher, and to scientific academies". He is the co-author of ten books, four edited books, and five hundred papers. He holds 16 International Patents covering rolling mill technology, telecommunications, mine planning and mineral exploration. His current research interests include power electronics, boiler control systems and management of Type 1 diabetes.

Books

*Graham Clifford Goodwin, Stefan F. Graebe, Mario E. Salgado, ''Control system design'', Prentice Hall, 2001, * * *Graham Clifford Goodwin, Stefan F. Graebe. Doctorate and Beyond: Building a Career in Engineering and the Physical Sciences. Springer. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodwin, Graham Clifford 1945 births Living people People from Broken Hill, New South Wales University of New South Wales alumni Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia) Australian electrical engineers Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Recipients of the M. A. Sargent Medal