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The prize consists of a monetary prize and a certificate. This prize was created in 1986 and renamed the Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize in 2002, in honor of IFAC’s first president.

Each nomination must be made by a nominator who is responsible for providing full and accurate information. Any person is eligible to serve as a nominator, with the exception of the chair/s and members of the Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Selection Committee (Chair: Christopher Edwards, Vice-Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan Members: Antonio Visioli, Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Miroslav Krstic, Iven Mareels, Henk Nijmeijer, Si Zhao Joe Qin, Joao Manoel Gomes da Silva) and the IFAC Awards Chair (Frank Allgöwer). Please note that self-nominations are not allowed.

The Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Selection Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) calls for nominations for the Triennial Harold Chestnut Prize.

The Prize is awarded to the author(s) of a control engineering textbook that has most contributed to the education of control engineers. The Prize, consisting of a monetary award and a certificate, will be presented at the 23rd IFAC World Congress that will be held in

Busan, Republic of Korea from 23-28 August 2026.

To be considered, nominations must relate to books that are:
1. Written in English (the official IFAC working language)
2. Published between 1 September 2017 and 31 July 2023.
3. No more than one IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize may be given for any particular textbook.
4. Textbooks (co-) authored by the chair/s and members of the Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Selection Committee and by the IFAC Awards Chair are not eligible.

Nominations should include:
a)     A nomination letter that states the full title, name(s) and address of the author(s), name of the textbook, date of publication, and name and address of the textbook’s publisher;
b) Evidence of the contribution/s of the textbook to the education of control engineers; and
c) Any additional information that may support the judging process, as per the selection criteria listed below.

All nominations will be evaluated using the selection criteria:
• Originality and innovation
• General content in terms of the topics covered
• Clear applications to real problems
• Style:
- Presentation, readability and clarity in relation to the content
• Meeting educational objectives:
- Clear statement of what students should be able to do
- Worked examples and exercises
- Software support
- Multi-disciplinary examples (cross-boundary applications of control)
- Use by practicing engineers

To be considered, nominations must be received by 1 February 2026. All submissions should be sent via e-mail as a single PDF file containing all required information to the selection committee chair Christopher Edwards at C.Edwards@exeter.ac.uk.

If the prize-winning textbook is written by more than one author, the monetary component of the prize will be equally split among the authors with each author receiving a certificate. The winner(s) will be notified well in advance to allow for planning their attendance in Busan. Winner/s are kindly requested to not inform anyone of the win prior to the Congress, in particularly the textbook’s publisher.

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EECI-IGSC 2025 program and registration: http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/

EECI-IGSC-2025: the summaries of the courses of the IFAC and IEEE CSS co-sponsored 2025 EECI International Graduate School on Control, a series of 19 independent graduate modules, are described here and the registration is open.

PARIS-SACLAY – LILLE – ILMENAU – LAUSANNE – ZURICH – ROME – LONDON – ISTANBUL – LIEGE – BARCELONA – DELFT – LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE – OXFORD – DUBROVNIK – MILAN