Elmer G. Gilbert

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|6|16|1930|3|29}}

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| fields = Control theory

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| alma_mater = University of Michigan

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| awards = Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1996)
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Elmer Grant Gilbert (March 29, 1930 – June 16, 2019) was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957.{{Cite web |url=http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/about/people/profiles/f-to-j/elmer-gilbert |title=Elmer Gilbert | Michigan Engineering |access-date=2015-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222165018/http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/about/people/profiles/f-to-j/elmer-gilbert |archive-date=2015-12-22 |url-status=dead }}

Gilbert was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234827/http://ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |title=IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate={{Format date|2011|3|30}}}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |title=IEEE Control Systems Award |publisher=IEEE Control Systems Society |accessdate={{Format date|2011|3|30}} |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |archivedate=2010-12-29 }} (the citation reads: "for pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms") and the 1996 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council.{{cite web |url=http://a2c2.org/awards/richard-e-bellman-control-heritage-award |title=Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award |publisher=American Automatic Control Council |accessdate={{Format date|2013|2|10}} |archive-date=2018-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001032837/http://a2c2.org/awards/richard-e-bellman-control-heritage-award |url-status=dead }}

Gilbert died on June 16, 2019, at the age of 89.{{cite web |title=Elmer G. Gilbert |url=https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/elmer-gilbert-obituary?id=9071134 |website=Legacy |access-date=26 December 2023}}