Stephen Kahne Elected IFAC Fellow

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Embry-Riddle Professor Stephen Kahne Elected to Rank of Fellow in the International Federation of Automatic Control

Prescott, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2005 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Stephen Kahne has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Kahne was one of only seven Americans elected out of a total of 30 nominees from 17 nations at the IFAC World Congress in Prague in July 2005.

The citation reads, “For outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the field of automatic control and involvement in IFAC activities in the promotion of the field.”

Kahne has held many positions in IFAC over the past 35 years, including president from 1993 to 1996. In addition to government and industrial leadership roles, Kahne’s career has included positions as professor, department head, dean, and president at several universities in the United States. He joined Embry-Riddle in 1995 as chancellor of the Prescott, Ariz., campus, where he is now a professor of Electrical Engineering.

Kahne has received numerous awards, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Richard Eberson Award, the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IFAC Outstanding Service Award, and the John A. Curtis Lecture Award of the Computers in Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of IEEE.

He is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Yavapai County in Arizona and a member of the Board of Directors of the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic in Prescott.

Kahne received a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, both at the University of Illinois (Urbana), and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University.

Founded in 1957, the International Federation of Automatic Control is a multinational federation of national member organizations, each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in their own country.

The purpose of the Federation is to promote the science and technology of control in the broadest sense in all systems, whether engineering, physical, biological, social, or economic, in both theory and application. IFAC is also concerned with the impact of control technology on society.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates more than 30,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Extended Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and through distance learning.