Bernard Friedland, Ph.D. '48 Engineer, Author, Distinguished Professor Bernard Friedland is a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He teaches system and control theory and engages in research in its applications. He has also taught at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Polytechnic University, New York University and Columbia University. Dr. Friedland is author of two textbooks on automatic control, Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods (1986) and Advanced Control System Design (1995). He is co-authore of two other textbooks, one on circuit theory and the other on linear system theory, and is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers on control theory and its application. For 27 years prior to joining NJIT, Dr. Friedland was Manager of Systems Research in the Kearfott Guidance and Navigation Corporation, where he planned and directed the company’s program in modern control theory and its application. While at Kearfott, he was awarded 12 patents in the fields of navigation, instrumentation, and control systems. The 1982 Oldenberger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was awarded to Dr. Friedland "in recognition of his creative extensions to the theory of optimal control and recursive filtering and its practical applications to the design of guidance and navigation systems." Dr. Friedland is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, which presented him with the Distinguished Member Award in 1985. A Fellow of the ASME, Dr. Friedland served on the Executive Committee of the Automatic Control Division from 1964-1969 and was chairman in 1967-68. He is also an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. His academic honors include a National Science Foundation Fellowship, the Illig Medal in Applied Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.