departments to revise the undergraduate curriculum through a program designed to help students get a fast start on their undergraduate classes and to create a minority student mentoring program, both designed to increase students’ success while boosting the quality of their educational preparation. Similarly, in his role as Assistant Director in the NSF Engineering Directorate, he promoted efforts to address science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) issues at all educational levels, with an emphasis on improving opportunities and outcomes for women and underrepresented minorities in engineering. Honors Dr. Khargonekar has received numerous honors and awards. He is among the ISI Highly Cited Researchers, and has a Google Scholar h-index of 60 and g-index of 130, with one paper, “State-space solutions to standard H/sub 2/and H/sub infinity/control problems,” cited 6,895 times. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Other honors include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1991), the George Axelby Best Paper Award (from the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1990), the Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (American Automatic Control Council, 1993), two Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowships (1992, 2007), and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1997). At the University of Michigan, he received a teaching excellence award from the EECS department (1992), a research excellence award from the College of Engineering (1994), and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (1995). At the University of Minnesota, he received the George Taylor Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Technology (1987). In 2018 he was given the IEEE Control Systems Award and in 2018 he was elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. Service Dr. Khargonekar has served as Associate Editor for six publications: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization; Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems; Systems and Control Letters; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control; and Mathematical Problems in Engineering. References External links Pramod Khargonekar's website University of California faculty University of Florida faculty University of Florida College of Engineering alumni IIT Bombay alumni University of Michigan faculty University of Minnesota faculty Living people American academics of Indian descent 1956 births Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni