Jose Bejar Cruz Jr. (born September 17, 1932) is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

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. Cruz was elected a member of the

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in 1980 for contributions to the control of large-scale systems with multiple goals and to sensitivity analysis. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the

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, and the

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. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the

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in 1994, and the

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in 2009.

Early life and education

He is a native of the town of Malolos, the capital of the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He completed his secondary studies at the Bulacan Provincial High School in his native town. He then went to the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, for his college studies. There, he completed his BS in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, in 1953, the first recipient of such an honor from the university. The following year, he journeyed to the US and earned an MS for Electrical Engineering from the MIT in Cambridge. Subsequently, he got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. He has spent most of his adult life in the US.

Biography

* Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering University of Illinois Urbana, IL, October 1959 * S.M. in Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, June 1956 * B.S. in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude University of the Philippines Quezon City, April 1953

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