Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1984 D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1987 Grainger Endowed Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1990 Quazza Medal, Highest Triennial Award, International Federation of Automatic Control, 1990 IEEE Bode Prize Lecture, 1991 Foreign Expert to Evaluate French National Institute (INRIA), 1992 The 1993 IEEE Outstanding Transactions Paper Award The 1995 IEEE Control Systems Award Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1996 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, IEEE, 2001 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2002. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011 See also Backstepping References External links 1936 births Living people Engineers from Belgrade 21st-century American engineers Control theorists Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Serbian engineers