SWE-D Member Dawn Tilbury awarded SWE National Distinguished Engineering Educator Award

Please pass on your congratulations to SWE-D member Dawn Tilbury.  Her bio is below:

Dawn M. Tilbury received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. In 1995, she joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is currently Professor, with a joint appointment as Professor of EECS. She is Deputy Director of the US Army Tank-Automotive Research and Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) sponsored Automotive Research Center.

Dr. Tilbury has received numerous awards for her teaching, research, and service activities. She won the EDUCOM Medal (jointly with Professor William Messner of Carnegie Mellon University) in 1997 for her work on the web-based Control Tutorials for Matlab. An expanded version, Control Tutorials for Matlab and Simulink, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999. She is co-author (with Joseph Hellerstein, Yixin Diao, and Sujay Parekh) of the textbook Feedback Control of Computing Systems. She has won the University of Michigan’s Teaching Incentive Award several times, as well as the university Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division’s Education Award.

She received an NSF CAREER award in 1999, and is the 2001 recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council. She was a member of the 2004-2005 class of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), and was a member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT) from 2005–2008. Her research interests include distributed control of mechanical systems with network communication, logic control of manufacturing systems, reliability of ground robotics, and dynamic systems modeling of physiological systems. She belongs to ASME, IEEE, and SWE. She was a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors from 2005–2008, and is currently Chair of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Executive Committee. She was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2008.