Walter Richard Evans, was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Walter Evans received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1941 and his M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/almaMater
dbpedia-owl:Person/award
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
  • 1920-01-15 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/citizenship
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathDate
  • 1999-07-10 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/knownFor
dbpedia-owl:Person/residence
dbpedia-owl:almaMater
dbpedia-owl:award
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
  • 1920-01-15 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:citizenship
dbpedia-owl:deathDate
  • 1999-07-10 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:knownFor
dbpedia-owl:residence
dbpprop:abstract
  • Walter Richard Evans, was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Walter Evans received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1941 and his M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951. During his lifetime, he worked as an engineer at several companies, including General Electric, Rockwell International, and Ford Aeronautic Company. He published a book named "Control System Dynamics" with McGraw-Hill in 1954. He had 4 children. One of his children, Gregory Walter Evans, wrote an article about his father in the December 2004 issue of the IEEE Control Magazine.
dbpprop:almaMater
dbpprop:awards
dbpprop:birthDate
dbpprop:citizenship
dbpprop:deathDate
dbpprop:fields
dbpprop:knownFor
dbpprop:name
  • Walter R. Evans
dbpprop:otherpersonsProperty
  • Walter Evans
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:residence
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbpprop:wordnet_type
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Walter Richard Evans, was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Walter Evans received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1941 and his M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951.
rdfs:label
  • Walter R. Evans
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Walter R. Evans
foaf:page