Andrew Alleyne, MechSE’s associate head for undergraduate programs and the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor, has been awarded the Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award by ASME.
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Andrew Alleyne, MechSE’s associate head for undergraduate programs and the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor, has been awarded the Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award by ASME.
This award is given biennially by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME to a Dynamic Systems and Control Division member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding research contributions, either basic or applied, as a mechanical engineering professional to fields of interest to the DSCD.
Alleyne's research addresses a range of issues within controls: the analysis and design of control systems in a dimensionless framework, advanced motion control through iterative learning control and adaptive feedforward techniques, and robust control approaches to gain-scheduling as they relate to vehicle dynamics, large- and small-scale manufacturing systems and fluid power.
After receiving his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, Alleyne came to Illinois to join the department as an assistant professor, and then became an associate professor in 2000 and a full professor in 2004. He served as the College of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research from 2008 to 2012, and he began his appointment of associate head for undergraduate programs in 2014.
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