The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is an award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizing significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. It was established in 1968 in the honor of Rufus Oldenburger.

Recipients

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ASME
* 1968: Rufus Oldenburger * 1969:

Nathaniel B. Nichols Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory. He is well known for his book ''Theory of Servomechanisms'', one of the most widely read books in control engin ...

* 1970:

John R. Ragazzini John Ralph Ragazzini (January 3, 1912 – November 22, 1988) was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Biography Ragazzini was born in Manhattan, New York City from Italian immigrants Luigi Ragazzini an ...

* 1971:

Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentat ...

* 1972: Albert J. Williams, Jr. * 1973: Clesson E. Mason * 1974: Herbert W. Ziebolz * 1975:

Hendrik Wade Bode Hendrik Wade Bode ( ; ;Van Valkenburg, M. E. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "In memoriam: Hendrik W. Bode (1905-1982)", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-29, No 3., March 1984, pp. 193–194. Quote: "Something should be ...

and

Harry Nyquist Harry Nyquist (, ; February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was a Swedish-American physicist and electronic engineer who made important contributions to communication theory. Personal life Nyquist was born in the village Nilsby of the parish Stora Ki ...

* 1976:

Rudolf E. Kálmán Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian Americans, Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algo ...

* 1977:

Gordon S. Brown Gordon Stanley Brown (August 30, 1907 in Australia – August 23, 1996 in Tucson, Arizona) was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control o ...

and Harold L. Hazen * 1978: * 1979: Henry M. Paynter * 1980:

Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. Arthur Earl Bryson Jr. (born October 7, 1925) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory". With Henry J. Kelley, he also pioneered an early version of the backpr ...

* 1981: Shih-Ying Lee * 1982: Bernard Friedland * 1983:

Jesse Lowen Shearer Jesse Lowen Shearer (1921—1992) was an American professor, engineer and pioneer in the field of hydraulics. Shearer obtained his Sc.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and as a member of their faculty for mechanical engineering he ...

* 1984: Herbert H. Richardson * 1985:

Karl Johan Åström Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control. In 1965, he described a general framework of Marko ...

* 1986: Eliahu I. Jury * 1987: Walter R. Evans * 1988: Robert H. Cannon, Jr. * 1989: * 1990:

Harold Chestnut Harold (Hall) Chestnut (November 25, 1917 – August 29, 2001) was an American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and author, who helped establish the fields of control theory and systems engineering. Biograp ...

* 1991: John G. Truxal * 1992: Isaac M. Horowitz * 1993: Lotfi A. Zadeh * 1994: Howard H. Rosenbrock * 1995:

George Leitmann George Leitmann (born May 24, 1925) is an Austrian-born American engineering scientist and educator. Early life and education Leitmann was born on May 24, 1925, to a fully assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His paternal grandfather wa ...

* 1996: George D. Zames * 1997:

Thomas B. Sheridan Thomas B. Sheridan (born December 23, 1929) is American professor of mechanical engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer of robotics and remote control technology. Early life and e ...

* 1998: David G. Luenberger * 1999:

Yu-Chi Ho Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho (; born March 1, 1934) is a Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. He is the co-author of ''Applied Optimal Control'', and an i ...

* 2000: * 2002: Masayoshi Tomizuka * 2003:

Vadim Utkin Vadim Ivanovich Utkin (; 30 October 1937 – 18 September 2022) was a Russian- American control theorist, electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is best known ...

* 2004:

Alistair MacFarlane Sir Alistair George James MacFarlane (9 May 1931 – 2 November 2021) was a Scottish electrical engineer and leading academic who served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Rector, University of the H ...

* 2005:

Roger W. Brockett Roger Ware Brockett (born October 22, 1938 in Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded thHarvard Robotics Laboratoryin 1983. Brocket ...

* 2006: J. Karl Hedrick * 2007: * 2008: A. Galip Ulsoy * 2009: Neville J. Hogan * 2010: * 2011: Haruhiko Harry Asada * 2012:

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born 29 September 1947) is a leading control theorist and a Fellow of Royal Society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Previously he was the Cecil & Ida Green (II) C ...

* 2013: Graham C. Goodwin * 2014: Robert R. Bitmead * 2015:

Manfred Morari Manfred Morari (born 1951) is a world-leading control theorist who has made pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of Model Predictive Control, Internal Model Control (IMC) and Hybrid Systems. His book on Robust Process Control ...

* 2016: Jean-Jacques Slotine * 2017: Miroslav Krstić * 2018: Roberto Horowitz * 2019: Huei Peng * 2020: Mark W. Spong * 2021:

Shankar Sastry S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. From 1996-1999, he was the director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. F ...

* 2022: Wayne J. Book

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* {{cite web, url=http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/rufus-oldenburger-medal , title=Rufus Oldenburger Medal , publisher= American Society of Mechanical Engineers , accessdate={{Format date, 2016, 07, 29 Systems sciences awards Systems sciences organizations Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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