Elmer Grant Gilbert was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award (the citation reads: "for pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms") and the 1996 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council. References External links NAE profile First-Hand: Reminiscences on My Career in Control video on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki Faculty History Project at the University of Michigan Professional biography from University of Michigan Aerospace Cirriculum Vitae Obituary from University of Michigan Aerospace American aerospace engineers Control theorists Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni University of Michigan faculty Scientists from Michigan 20th-century American engineers 21st-century American engineers 1930 births Fellow Members of the IEEE