A retired University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University has been honored for lifetime achievements by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Hassan K. Khalil was presented the 2025 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal — the highest honor presented by ASME in the field of automatic control — during the ASME Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference in October in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Khalil is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Nelson Sepúlveda Alancastro, professor and interim ECE chair, said Khalil’s decades of work put MSU on “the national and global map” in theoretical controls.