The Bridge - Issue 3, 2023 - 36

Awards
Asad M. Madni to Receive the
2022 IEEE Elmer A. Sperry Award at this
Year's HKN Student Leadership Conference
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization
dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has
announced that Asad M. Madni will be recognized with
the 2022 Elmer A. Sperry Award in recognition of his
leadership in the development and commercialization
of the first solid-state gyroscope and its subsequent
integration into a complete automotive inertial
measurement unit integrated circuit for stability control.
The Elmer A. Sperry Award is given in recognition of
a distinguished engineering contribution that, through
application, proven in actual service, has advanced the
art of transportation, whether by land, sea, air, or space.
The Sperry Award is managed by a board representing
six engineering organizations: the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society
of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, SAE International, and the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers.
Dr. Madni will be receiving the Sperry Award at the
IEEE-HKN Student Leadership Conference Dinner
on Saturday, 4 November 2023. Learn more:
https://hkn.ieee.org/
Dr. Madni was President, Chief Operating Officer,
and Chief Technology Officer of BEI Technologies
Inc., headquartered in California. His revolutionary
contributions to sensors and systems for navigation and
stability in aerospace and automotive safety applications
have helped save countless lives around the world.
The GyroChip and numerous other sensing, actuation,
and signal-processing techniques developed by Madni
are at the heart of vehicle dynamic control in intelligent
and autonomous vehicles through capabilities such
as electronic stability control, rollover prevention, lane
change assist, autonomous cruise control, navigation,
drowsy-driver detection, drunk driver detection, child seat
detection, memory seat sensing, and self-maintenance.
They are also used for guidance, navigation, and control,
and attitude heading and reference in commercial and
military aircraft, UAVs, and space programs.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Madni received the 2022 IEEE
Medal of Honor, IEEE's highest award, and the 2022
Prince Philip Medal, the Royal Academy of Engineering's
highest individual honor. He is a Distinguished Adjunct
Professor/Distinguished Scientist, and Co-supervisor of
the High-Speed Electronics Laboratory at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department. He is also a faculty fellow
with UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies and the
Connected Autonomous Electrical Vehicle Consortium,
Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is an HKN Eminent Member
and received the HKN Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding
Technical Achievement Award in 2017.
Princess Anne presents 2022 Prince Philip Medal
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