J. Karl Hedrick

J. Karl Hedrick (born 1944) is an American control theorist and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made seminal contributions in nonlinear control and estimation. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1988. Hedrick received a bachelor's degree in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Michigan (1966) and a M.S. and Ph.D from Stanford University (1970, 1971). Hedrick is the head of the Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory at UC Berkeley.

He was awarded the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2006[1] and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

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  1. ↑ "Rufus Oldenburger Medal". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved February 13, 2013.

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