Marc Bodson
Professor

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
50 S CENTRAL CAMPUS DR RM 2110
SALT LAKE CITY UT 84112-9206

Office: Merrill Engineering Building, Rm 3230
Tel.: (801) 581-8590
E-mail: marc.bodson@utah.edu

Photo gallery, including scenic pictures in and around Utah.

Highlights

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to the theory of adaptive control to electromechanical and flight control systems,” 2006. Life Fellow since 2023.
Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013.
Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Utah, July 2003 to October 2009.  Associate Chair: 1999 to 2003.
Engineering Educator of the Year award, received from the Utah Engineers Council, 2007.
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2000 to 2003. Associate Editor: 1996 to 1999.

Books




Research

Teaching activities

NEW:   fun control experiments with Matlab and a touchpad or mouse.

For students:  information for students interested in control systems, information for students interested in power engineering, information for students interested in robotics.

Electrical Engineering for Non-Majors: ECE 2210, Spring 2025.
Sophomore Seminar: ECE 2910, Fall 2016.
Junior Seminar: ECE 3900, Spring 2017. 
Introduction to Feedback Systems: El En 3510, Spring 2003. 
Control of Electric Motors: ECE 5670/6670, Spring 2025.
Electric Generators: ECE 5671/6671, Fall 2023.
Adaptive Control: ECE 6570, Spring 2020. 

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986, University of California, Berkeley.
   PhD thesis: Stability, Convergence, and Robustness of Adaptive Systems. Supervised by S. Sastry.
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  
  MS thesis: Lateral Control System Design for VTOL Landing on a DD963 in High Sea States. Supervised by M. Athans.
Ingénieur Civil Mécanicien et Electricien, 1980, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
   Thesis: Mesure des Paramètres des Machines Synchrones. Supervised by R. Poncelet and J.-C. Maun.

Other professional data

Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Utah, 1999 to present. Associate Professor: 1994 to 1999 (tenured in 1997).
Assistant and Associate Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, 1987 to 1993.
Utah Section Outstanding Engineer Award and Region 6 Northeast Area Outstanding Engineer Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016.
Plenary speaker at 2006 IEEE SMC Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Logan, Utah, July 2006.
Plenary speaker at the Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique, Douz, Tunisia, November 22, 2004.
Fellow, Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Israel, 1990. Spent 12 months at the Technion, in Haifa, Israel.
Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Belgium, 1980.

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Last updated: December 24, 2024.