Biographical Sketch - A. Galip Ulsoy
A. Galip Ulsoy is the William
Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing and the Director of the Ground Robotics
Research Center (GRRC). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at
the University of Michigan (UM) since 1980.
He has served as the founding Director of the Program in Manufacturing,
Chair and Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering as well
as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program. He was born in
1950 in Zonguldak, Turkey, is a naturalized citizen of
the U.S.A., and is married with one daughter.
Galip Ulsoy is interested in the dynamic modeling, analysis, and control of mechanical systems; particularly manufacturing and automotive systems. His research work utilizes a combination of experimental, analytical, and numerical methods. He has made basic research contributions to the mechanics of axially moving elastic systems (e.g., translating bands, rotating shafts), and to control system design (e.g., state derivative feedback, coupling between modeling and controller design). He has also made significant research contributions to manufacturing systems (e.g., sawing, turning, milling, drilling, robotics), automotive systems (e.g., accessory drive belts, active suspensions, lateral control), and other engineering application areas (e.g., disk drives, mineral processing operations).
Galip Ulsoy received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979. He also has an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1975), a B.S. degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College (1973), and a high school diploma from Robert College (1969). He served as the Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, (JDSMC) and is a member of the editorial board of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and several other international journals. He has also served as a technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
Galip Ulsoy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is Fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a Senior Member of IEEE, an Associate Member of CIRP, and a member of several other professional and honorary organizations (ASEE, Sigma Xi, Sigma Tau, and U.M. Research Club). Galip Ulsoy is the Past President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), which is the national member organization representing the USA in the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He has served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, as the General Chair (2000), Program Chair (1995) and Publications Chair (1991) for the American Control Conference, and as the founding General Chair (2008) of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.
Galip Ulsoy has received several professional honors and awards including the 1979 Wood Award from the Forest Products Research Society, a Society of Manufacturing Engineers' 1986 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and 2008 Albert M. Sargent Progress Award, the AACC 1994 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and the Southwest Mechanics Lectureship (1995), the 2003 ASME JDSMC Rudolf Kalman Best paper Award, the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Leadership (2000) and Henry Paynter Outstanding Investigator (2004) Awards., the 2008 SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award, and the ASME Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal for 2008.
During 2003-2005 he served as the Director of the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Galip Ulsoy served as the founding Deputy Director (1996-2002, 2006-present) of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems, and he has served as the Director (1992-94) and Associate Director (1990-92) of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Dimensional Measurement and Control in Manufacturing. He has carried out various sponsored research projects, and served as a consultant to both industry and government. Galip Ulsoy has also worked at a Visiting Researcher at the Ford Scientific Research Laboratories and a Visiting Professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Galip Ulsoy has developed several new courses in the automatic control, automotive and manufacturing areas at the University of Michigan and is the co-author, with Warren R. DeVries, of the textbook Microcomputer Applications in Manufacturing (Wiley, New York, 1989). He has also published over 250 refereed technical articles in journals, conferences, and books.
Last updated on 3 July 2008 by A. Galip Ulsoy (ulsoy@umich.edu)