Tsu-Chin Tsao receives IFAC Mechatronics Systems Award

Science and engineering

OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2016. Tsu-Chin Tsao, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the 2016 International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Mechatronics Systems Award. The award is administered by the federation's Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems and is given once every three years. Tsao was presented with the award at the 2016 IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, held in Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Tsao was cited for his "outstanding contributions in the design, modelling, control, and realization of mechatronic systems, and for investigation and engineering of precision motion and vibration control to achieve high performance in engineering systems."