AFIT
Professor Emeritus Receives Recognition
Dr
Peter S. Maybeck, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering,,
has been named the recipient of of
the “Captain P.V.H. Weems Award” for his lifelong accomplishments in
navigation education and research. The award was presented at IEEE/ION
Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) in
Dr. Peter
S. Maybeck’s contributions to the advancement of the art and science of
navigation are almost immeasurable. As a professor of electrical engineering at
AFIT, Dr. Maybeck has directly impacted every AFIT guidance, navigation, and
control graduate student since 1973 . Dr.
Maybeck has been directly responsible for AFIT’s graduate sequence in
estimation and stochastic control and for individual advanced digital filtering
and controls courses, research, advising of masters and doctoral research, and
consulting for Air Force and DoD organizations.
He
is the author of more than one hundred technical publications on applied optimal
filtering as well as the book Stochastic Models, Estimation and Control,
and impacted the more than 500 guidance,
navigation, and control students during his service on the AFIT faculty from
1973 unitl retirement in 2007. He is a Fellow of the IEEE