Marc Bodson's Web Page

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.

Books and research

M. Bodson, Models of Electric Machines, published through Amazon, August 2022. ISBN: 979-8542675947. Click here for more information and complementary material.
M. Bodson, Adaptive Estimation and Control, published through Amazon, August 2020. ISBN: 979-8673645192. Click here for more information and complementary material.
M. Bodson, Foundations of Control Engineering, published through Amazon, January 2020. ISBN: 978-1705847466. Click here for the pdf version and complementary material.
S. Sastry & M. Bodson, Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence, and Robustness, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989. ISBN: 0130043265. Classic book (4000+ citations):. Republished by Dover in 2011 and available from Amazon. ISBN: 978-0486482026. Click here for the pdf version and complementary material.
Coming soon! Control of Electric Motors. Click here for more information and complementary material.
Also: Electric Generators. Click here for more information and complementary material.
Research interests, list of publications, and Google scholar citations. For copies of publications, check the directory of pdf files or send a request by email to marc.bodson@utah.edu.
Matlab/Simulink code for research and education. Click here for the dedicated page.

Teaching activities

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

Web pages related to my courses on control of electric motors, electric generators, and adaptive control.

Sophomore Seminar: ECE 2910, Fall 2016. Click here to view the course syllabus
Junior Seminar: ECE 3900, Spring 2017. Click here to view the course syllabus
Introduction to Feedback Systems: El En 3510, Spring 2003. Click here to view the course syllabus
Control of Electric Motors: ECE 5670/6670, Spring 2023. Click here to view the course syllabus
Electric Generators: ECE 5671/6671, Fall 2022. Click here to view the course syllabus
Adaptive Control: ECE 6570, Spring 2020. Click here to view the course syllabus

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.

Professional data

Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023.
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to the theory of adaptive control to electromechanical and flight control systems”, 2006.
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.
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.
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2000 to 2003. Associate Editor: 1996 to 1999.
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.
Fellow, Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Israel, 1990. Spent 12 months at the Technion, in Haifa, Israel.
Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Belgium, 1980.

This web page is maintained by Professor Marc Bodson, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. Please see the University of Utah Web disclaimer. For questions or comments, please send an e-mail to marc.bodson@utah.edu.

Last updated: December 26, 2022.