Biographical Sketch - A. Galip Ulsoy

ulsoy(b&w).gifA. Galip Ulsoy is the C. D. Mote, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM) since 1980 and was the founding Director of the Program in Manufacturing, Chair and Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program. He also served as founding Director of the Ground Robotics Reliability Center and founding Deputy Director of the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (ERC/RMS). He was born in 1950 in Zonguldak, Turkey, is a naturalized citizen of the USA, and is married with one daughter. 

 

Galip Ulsoy is interested in the dynamic modeling, analysis, and control of mechanical systems; particularly manufacturing and automotive systems. His award-winning research work utilizes a combination of experimental, analytical, and numerical methods. He has made basic research contributions to the mechanics of axially moving elastic systems (e.g., translating bands, rotating shafts), and to control system design (e.g., time delay systems, state derivative feedback, coupling between modeling and controller design, co-design, component swapping modularity). He has also made significant research contributions to manufacturing systems (e.g., sawing, turning, milling, drilling, robotics), automotive systems (e.g., accessory drive belts, active suspensions, lateral control), and other engineering application areas (e.g., disk drives, mineral processing operations).

 

Galip Ulsoy received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979. He also has an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1975), a B.S. degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College (1973), and a high school diploma from Robert College (1969). He is the founding Editor of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Magazine, served as the Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, (JDSMC) and as a member of the editorial board of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and several other international journals. He has also served as a technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

 

Galip Ulsoy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Galip Ulsoy is the Past President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), which is the national member organization representing the USA in IFAC.  He has served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, as the General Chair (2000), Program Chair (1995) and Publications Chair (1991) for the American Control Conference, and as the founding General Chair (2008) of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. He is the General Chair for the 2015 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems.

 

Galip Ulsoy has received numerous professional honors and awards including the 1979 Wood Award from the Forest Products Research Society, an SME 1986 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and 2008 Albert M. Sargent Progress Award, the AACC 1994 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and the Southwest Mechanics Lectureship (1995), the 2003 and 2016 ASME JDSMC Rudolf Kalman Best paper Awards, the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Michael Rabins Leadership (2000) and Henry Paynter Outstanding Investigator (2004) Awards. He received the ASME Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal for 2008, and the 2013 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from ASME and Pi Tau Sigma. In 2012 he received the Special Award from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), which is equivalent to the Turkish Science Award and presented by the President of the Turkish Republic, in 2013 he was selected to give the ASME Nyquist Lecture, in 2014 he received the Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award in Flexible Automation, and in 2020 Received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Award.

 

During 2003-2005 he served as the Director of the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Galip Ulsoy has served as the Director (1992-94) and Associate Director (1990-92) of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Dimensional Measurement and Control in Manufacturing. He has carried out various sponsored research projects, and served as a consultant to both industry and government. Galip Ulsoy has also worked at a Visiting Researcher at the Ford Scientific Research Laboratories and a Visiting Professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Galip Ulsoy has developed several new courses in the areas of automatic control, automotive and manufacturing systems at the University of Michigan and is the co-author of the textbook Microcomputer Applications in Manufacturing (Wiley, 1989).  He is also co-author of the textbook Automotive Control Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is a co-author of the research monographs Time Delay Systems (World Scientific, 2010), and Process Control for Sheet-Metal Stamping (Springer, 2014).  He has also published over 300 refereed technical articles in journals, conferences, and books.

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