James B. Rawlings receives the Nordic Process Control 

The Nordic Process Control Award is awarded for lasting and significant contributions to the field of process control. 
The 13th recipient of this award is Professor James B. Rawlings who received the award for his seminal contributions to the theory of Model Predictive Control (MPC).

The award was presented to Professor Rawlings on August 22, 2013 during the 18th Nordic Process 
Control Workshop held at the University of Oulu in Finland. The title of his inspiring award 
lecture was:  "Model Predictive Control: Its Interesting Past and Bright Future".


Previous winners of the Nordic Process Control Award:

1995: Howard H. Rosenbrock  
1997: Karl Johan Åstrøm  
1998: F. Greg Shinskey  
2000: Jens G. Balchen  
2001: Charles R. Cutler  
2003: Roger W. Sargent 
2004: Ernst Dieter Gilles  
2006: Manfred Morari  
2007: Jacques Richalet  
2009: John MacGregor 
2010: Graham C. Goodwin
2012: Lorenz T. Biegler