Anna Stefanopoulou
{{short description|Greek-American mechanical engineer}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}}
| fields = Electrical Engineering
| workplaces = Michigan (2000–)
UC Santa Barbara (1998–2000)
| awards = IEEE Control System Technology Award (2016)
ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2009)
| alma_mater = Michigan (Ph.D.)
National Technical University of Athens
| thesis_title = Modeling and control of advanced technology engines
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/304251105
| thesis_year = 1996
| doctoral_advisor = Jessy W. Grizzle
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Anna Stefanopoulou (born 1968) is a Greek-American{{r|born}} mechanical engineer known for her research on the control theory of fuel cells{{r|memag}} and on improving the fuel efficiency of automotive engines.{{r|npr}} She is William Clay Ford Professor of Technology in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, director of the University of Michigan Energy Institute,{{r|umich}} and a member of the University of Michigan President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality.{{r|carbon}}
Education and career
Stefanopoulou studied marine engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, studying ship propulsion{{r|memag}} and graduating with a diploma in 1991. She moved to the University of Michigan for graduate study, beginning with a master's degree in marine engineering but then shifting to electrical engineering and computer science,{{r|cv}} as she became more interested in automotive applications of control theory.{{r|memag}}
After completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she worked on engine control for the Ford Motor Company from 1996 to 1997.{{r|cv|memag}} In 1998 she became an assistant professor of mechanical and environmental engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara,{{r|cv}} where she developed an additional line of research on automated braking,{{r|memag}} and was chosen as one of the participants in a prestigious National Academy of Engineering "Frontiers of Engineering" symposium.{{r|frontiers}} In 2000 she returned to the University of Michigan as an associate professor of mechanical engineering,{{r|cv}} and began the work on fuel cells for which she is best known.{{r|memag}}
Book
Stefanopoulou is the co-author, with Jay T. Pukrushpan and Huei Peng, of the book Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems: Principles, Modeling, Analysis and Feedback Design (Springer, 2004).{{r|cfc}}
Recognition
Stefanopoulou was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007.{{r|cv}} In 2009 she became an IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to control of energy conversion systems".{{r|ieee}} She became a fellow of SAE International (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers) in 2018.{{r|cv}}
In 2009, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers gave Stefanopoulou their Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering.{{r|larson}} In 2016 the IEEE Control Systems Society gave her their Control System Technology Award "for the development of an advanced battery management system accounting for electro-thermo-mechanical phenomena".{{r|csta}}
The University of Michigan named Stefanopoulou to the William Clay Ford Professorship in 2017.{{r|cv}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2019/02/05/university-of-michigan-creates-commission-on-carbon-neutrality/|title=University of Michigan creates commission on carbon neutrality|date=February 5, 2019|work=ClickOnDetroit|publisher=WDIV-TV}}
| last = Guzzella | first = Lino
| doi = 10.1002/rnc.1005
| issue = 12
| journal = International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
| pages = 553–554
| title = Review of Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems
| volume = 15
| year = 2005| doi-access = free
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{{citation|url=http://ieeecss.org/archive/css-ieee-fellows|title=CSS members promoted to IEEE Fellow in 2009|series=CSS IEEE Fellows archive|publisher=IEEE Control Systems Society|accessdate=2020-07-30}}
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External links
- [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~annastef/ Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|CCOA92wAAAAJ}}
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Category:American mechanical engineers
Category:American women engineers
Category:Greek women engineers
Category:National Technical University of Athens alumni
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers