David Mayne

Professor David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.

Career

Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950-54; 1957-59).

He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-67. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971). At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971-91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984-88).

He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.

He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.

Awards and affiliations

• IEEE Control Systems Award, 2009^[1][2]
• Hon. DTech University of Lund, 1995
• Hon, Fellow Imperial College London, 2000
• FIEEE - 1981
• FRS - 1985
• FREng - 1987
• Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006

Selected publications

• Differential Dynamic Programming; ISBN-0444000704; ISBN-9780444000705 (1970)

References

1. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf. Retrieved March 30, 2011 (2011-03-30). 
2. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award. Retrieved March 30, 2011 (2011-03-30). 

External links

• Biodata at Debrett's
• Control Global website
• David Q. Mayne publications (with Saša V. Raković, and others)
• David Q. Mayne aided the creation of software that he contributed to algorithmically

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