Control/Automation Scientists to Attend University of New Mexico Sponsored Conference

Contact:
Chaouki Abdallah
(505) 277-0298

Chris Burroughs
(505) 277-1816

May 28, 1997

CONTROL/AUTOMATION SCIENTISTS TO ATTEND UNM-SPONSORED CONFERENCE

Some 1,000 scientists and engineers working in the fields of control, automation and related areas will be on hand for the 1997 American Control Conference June 4-6 at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Special workshops are also planned for June 2, 3 and 7.

Serving as conference host is the University of New Mexico School of Engineering. Dr. Chaouki Abdallah, UNM associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the local arrangements chairperson.

This is the 16th American Control Conference (ACC) sponsored by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) in cooperation with the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

During the conference, 915 refereed papers will be presented. An exhibit area will also be set up with publishers and developers of control software and hardware products. The technical program includes plenary lectures by three distinguished control engineers, including Dr. Graham C. Goodwin, Dean of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia; Dr. Andrew Packard, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; and Dr. Rolf Isermann, from the Institute of Automatic Control, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

The conference will cover a range of topics relevant to theory and practical implementation of control and automation such as robotics, manufacturing, guidance and flight control, power systems, process control measurement and sensing, identification and estimation, signal processing, modeling and advanced simulation.

A special feature of this year's conference is a nine-session track of presentations specifically addressing industrial applications to aerospace, robotics, dries and process controls.

Eight technical workshops will be held either Monday, June 2 and Tuesday, June 3 or on Saturday, June 7. The workshop presenters are leaders in their fields.

More information can be obtained by calling Abdallah at (505) 277-0298.