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Latest News The Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award presented to James C. Hung Dr. James C. Hung, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee, has received the Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, in Prague, on September 20, 2006. The Award, founded and sponsored by the IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation, is presented to individuals in grateful recognition of their lifetime contribution to the factory and industrial automation field; for meritorious technical contribution and technical leadership.
Award presentation ceremony. Prof. James C. Hung
(second from right); From right: Dr. Ronald Schoop, VP Schneider
Electric, who presented the Award; Prof. James C. Hung; Dr. Richard Zurawski; and Prof. Vladimir Marik, ETFA 2006 General Co-Chair.
Prof. Hung was a distinguished Service Professor of the University of Tennessee and is now a Professor Emeritus. He is a Honorary Professor of several Universities in China. Whilst at the University of Tennessee, he was responsible for the curriculum and research in the area of control systems. Prof. Hung directed research projects supported by NASA and the US Department of Defense. The research was mainly in system integration, guidance and control, inertial navigation, data reduction, and industrial control. Prof. Hung was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; President of the Industrial Electronics Society; and is a Life Member of the Administrative Committee of the IE Society.
Richard Zurawski
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Prof. James
C. Hung, a Life Fellow of the IEEE,
received a BS degree from the National Taiwan University, and an MS and
a Dr Eng Sc. Degrees From the New York University.