John C. Lozier is a noted American control engineer. He was responsible for the control of the Telstar ground-tracking antenna installed near Andover, Maine, and the Brittany Peninsula in France. This equipment, involving real-time computer control, enabled the first transatlantic TV operation in 1962.

Lozier served as the president of the American Automatic Control Council

American Automatic Control Council

The American Automatic Control Council is an organization founded in 1956 for research in control theory. It is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control....

 from 1960 to 1962 and as the president of the International Federation of Automatic Control

International Federation of Automatic Control

The International Federation of Automatic Control , founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of , each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.The aim of the Federation is to promote the science and technology of...

 from 1972 to 1975.

He received numerous awards for his contribution to the field of control theory

Control theory

Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...

, including the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award given by the American Automatic Control Council for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman...

in 1987.

External links

• IEEE awards