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Anthony N. Michel (November 17, 1935February 1, 2020), a life fellow of the
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, was an American
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ing
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. His expertise was in qualitative analysis of dynamical systems with emphasis on
stability theory In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions. The heat equation, for example, is a stable partial differ ...
and applications.


Career

Anthony N. Michel grew up in Romania as a member of the Banat Swabian ethnic minority. Prior to emigrating to the United States in 1952, he lived for five years in a
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in Austria. After receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1958 from
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in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he spent seven years in the aerospace industry. In 1964, he received a master's degree in mathematics and in 1968 a PhD in electrical engineering from Marquette. In 1973 he received a DSc in applied mathematics from the
Technical University of Graz Graz University of Technology (, short TU Graz) is a public research university located in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and is the oldest science and technology research and educational institute in Austria. ...
, Austria. Prior to becoming a member of the faculty of the
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in 1984, he was for sixteen years a professor of electrical engineering at
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, Ames, Iowa. He joined the faculty at Notre Dame as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and from 1988 until 1998 he was the dean of the College of Engineering at Notre Dame. He has held visiting professorships at the
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, Germany, the
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, Austria, and the
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, Austria. His publications include twelve text books and monographs. Several of his students are distinguished academics and scholars.The
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, North Dakota State University
Anthony N. Michel retired from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 as the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and the Frank M. Freimann Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He died Saturday, February 1, 2020 at the age of 84.


Awards and recognition

For his contributions as a researcher and educator he was elected a fellow of the
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,Derong Liu and Panos J. Antsaklis, eds., Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications – A tribute to Anthony N. Michel, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2003 (see pages xv – xxvi).IEEE Fellow Class 1982. he was named Frank M. Freimann Chaired Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame,"Notre Dame names Michel to Freimann engineering position", South Bend Tribune, April 11, 1987, p. A 5. he was appointed Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame,"Notre Dame names Michel the McCloskey Dean of engineering", South Bend Tribune, March 22, 1988. he was appointed editor-in-chief of the ''IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems'' (1981–1983), and he served as the president of the
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in 1989. He was elected a Foreign Member of the
Russian Academy of Engineering The Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE) is a public academy of sciences, which unites leading Russian and foreign scientists, engineers, scientific-research organizations, higher educational institutions and enterprises. The Russian Academy of En ...
(formerly the Engineering Academy of the USSR) in 1992.Russian Academy of Engineering He was a
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in Austria in 1992
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and he was awarded Germany's
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in 1998.South Bend Tribune, February 8, 1998, p. C 11.
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He received th
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
of the
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in 1978, th
Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1984, and th
Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
of the
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in 1995. He received the
IEEE Centennial Medal The IEEE Centennial Medal was a medal minted and awarded in 1984 ''to persons deserving of special recognition for extraordinary achievement'' to celebrate the Centennial of the founding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I ...
in 1984,
IEEE Centennial Medal The IEEE Centennial Medal was a medal minted and awarded in 1984 ''to persons deserving of special recognition for extraordinary achievement'' to celebrate the Centennial of the founding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I ...
the Golden Jubilee Medal of the
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in 1999, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.


References

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