Walter R. Evans

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name = Walter R. Evans

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residence = United States
citizenship = American
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fields = Control theory
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alma_mater = University of California, Los Angeles Washington University
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known_for = Root locus
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awards = Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award Rufus Oldenburger Medal
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Walter R. Evans (Walter Richard Evans, January 15, 1920-July 10, 1999) was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.

Walter Evans received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1941 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951.

During his lifetime, he worked as an engineer at several companies, including General Electric, Rockwell International, and Ford Aeronautic Company.

He published a book "Control System Dynamics" with McGraw-Hill in 1954.

He has 4 children. One of his children, Gregory Walter Evans, wrote an article about his father in the December 2004 issue of the IEEE Control Magazine.

Reference

Gregory Walter Evans, "Bringing root locus to the classroom: the story of Walter R. Evans and his textbook Control System Dynamics", IEEE Control Magazine, pp. 74-81, December 2004.

External links

* [http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~pao/aacc/fall99/evans.html Biography]
* [http://nancylittrell.com/Walter.htm Memoriam]