American Automatic Control Council

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American Automatic Control Council
Type	Professional Organization
Founded	1956
Origins	Association of the control systems divisions of eight societies.
Key people	A. Galip Ulsoy (current president)
Area served	Worldwide
Focus	Control theory
Method	Conferences, Publications
Website	www.a2c2.org

The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) is an organization founded in 1956 for research in control theory. It is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE),
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA)
Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)

1 American Control Conference
2 Awards
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] American Control Conference

The American Control Conference (ACC) is an annual research conference sponsored by the AACC and is one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of control theory. Dating back to 1960, the ACC consists of mostly researchers from the Americas with a large portion of students.

[edit] Awards

The AACC issues five awards for achievements in control theory:

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Control Engineering Practice Award
Donald P. Eckman Award
John R. Ragazzini Award named after John R. Ragazzini
O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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