Special Award 2010

Dr. Timothy Chang is Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NJIT. He received his B.Eng (honours) degree from McGill University, M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Toronto, and joined NJIT in 1991. His experience as a consultant for several companies tapped his expertise in Doppler mirror ring laser gyroscopes, sidewinder inertial navigation signal processing, among other technological areas. Dr. Chang has been the Chairman of the North Jersey IEEE Control Systems Chapter since 1994. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. His areas of interest include: ultra-high precision systems, genetic systems, robotics/motion control, embedded real time systems, decentralized control systems, and web-based experiments. Dr. Chang holds 7 patents with 3 patents pending. He has published over 70 referred journal and conference papers. He is the author of "Servo Control Design", in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, published by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).