Literati awards for excellence

Citation

Aplin, C. (1999), "Literati awards for excellence", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771daf.001

Literati awards for excellence

On 26 April 1999, MCB University Press held its annual awards for excellence and editors' workshop at the Hilton National London Olympia hotel, UK. Editors of many of MCB's journals including Terry Savage from Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal, attended an afternoon workshop where various topics were discussed including International Research Registers (go to http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/research_registers/ for further details), copyright, the role of the publisher and quality of publications. The workshop was followed by an award ceremony where authors of the most outstanding papers from the 1998 volume for each journal were recognised and presented with a plaque by the guest of honour, The Reverend Graham Cornish who is responsible for copyright law within the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The award for Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal went to I. Ursu, G. Tecuceanu and F. Ursu from the National Institute of Aerospace Research, Bucharest, Romania; T. Sireteanu from the Institute of Solid Mechanics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest; and M. Vladimirescu from COM DEV Ltd, Ontario, for their paper, "From robust control to antiwindup compensation of electrohydraulic servo actuators", Vol. 70 No. 4, 1998. The authors' awards were followed by awards for leading editors and finally for the editor of the year, which went to Patricia Layzell-Ward, the editor of Library Management

The ceremony was followed by a champagne reception and a dinner for all the winning authors, editors, guests and MCB editorial staff. It was a wonderful event and a very productive evening. Many of the attendees said that it was very useful to meet up with fellow authors and editors, both in their own fields and from other disciplines. We at MCB found it a great help to be able to put some names to faces. It was good to meet up with old acquaintances and to make some new ones. We look forward to next year's event.

The winning paper and its authors

"From robust control to antiwindup compensation of electrohydraulic servo actuators", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal, Vol. 70 No. 4, I. Ursu, G. Tecuceanu, and F. Ursu, National Institute of Aerospace Research, Bucharest, Romania; T. Sireteanu, Institute of Solid Mechanics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania; M. Vladimirescu, COM DEV Ltd, Ontario, Canada.

Ioan Ursu

Ioan Ursu is currently senior researcher, head of the system analysis department in "Elie Carafoli", National Institute for Aerospace Research (EC NIAR) in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from Bucharest University with an MSc degree in Mathematics in 1969 and from the Automatic Control Faculty at Polytechnic University of Bucharest with a post-university diploma (1986). Since 1969, he has been employed by EC NIAR. Here his activity is involved with the Romanian aircraft, helicopter and flight simulator projects. Early in his career he was given responsibility for the analysis and synthesis of the (electro) hydraulic servo actuating primary flight controls. After 1989, given the general economic difficulties in EC NIAR, his research interests (mathematical modelling, analysis, synthesis and tests of aircraft servo actuators) turned to more theoretical activity (applied stochastic control, active and semiactive control, system identification, etc.). Since 1996, he has been working on a doctoral thesis in applied active and semiactive control at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy.

Felicia Ursu

Felicia Ursu is currently senior researcher, within the system analysis department in "Elie Carafoli", National Institute for Aerospace Research (EC NIAR) in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from Bucharest University with an MSc degree in Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics Section) in 1969. Since 1969 she has been employed by EC NIAR. Here her activity is involved with the Romanian aircraft and helicopter projects. During her career she was given responsibility for the analysis and design of the special equipment and aircraft structures, vibration measurements, data processing, active control system analysis and synthesis. Her recent research interests are applied stochastic control, active and semiactive control and servomechanism synthesis.

Plate 1 Four of the authors recieve their award from the Reverend Cornish

George Tecuceanu

George Tecuceanu is currently a senior researcher in the system analysis department in "Elie Carafoli", National Institute for Aerospace Research (EC NIAR) of Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Department of Control Engineering and Computers in 1977. Since 1981, he has been employed by EC NIAR. Here he has been working for a long time in the flight dynamics department. His activity concerns principally flight control systems design and flight dynamics. He has responsibilities as a member of teams which have designed some of the Romanian airplanes/sail planes. Since 1989, his research interests have been in applied robust control, decentralized control, multicriteria dynamic optimization. At present, he is finishing his PhD thesis in multicriteria dynamic optimization techniques.

M. Vladimirescu

M. Vladimirescu graduated from the University "Dunarea de Jos" in Galati, Romania as a mechanical engineer in 1985. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for "Turbomecanica" Bucharest the only jet engine manufacturer. Between 1987-1996 he worked as scientific researcher for the Aerospace Research Institute "Elie Carafoli" in Bucharest. Between 1996-1997 he worked as Research Engineer for Profigard Inc., Montreal, Canada and since 1997 he has been working as Aerospace Design Engineer for COM-DEV Ltd Space Group, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

T. Sireteanu

T. Sireteanu gained a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania 1981. His major areas of research include continuum mechanics, vibrations of mechanical systems and mathematical modelling dynamics of non-linear systems. From 1971-1972 he was an associate research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. In 1975, he gave a series of lectures on random vibration theory applied to engineering problems in China. From 1989-1992, Dr Sireteanu was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanics, Bucharest University. He is currently a senior scientific researcher at the Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy.

Cathy AplinManaging Editor