TARIQ SAMAD is Corporate Fellow at Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Samad received his MSEE and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His other edited publications include Perspectives in Control Engineering: Applications, Technology, New Developments and Automation, Control, and Complexity: An Integrated View, both available from Wiley/IEEE.

GARY BALAS is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and Co-Director of the Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center, both at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Balas is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine and received his PhD degree in Astronautics and Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He is coauthor of the MATLAB? m-Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox and president of MUSYN Inc. Dr. Balas?s accomplishments include the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME.