David Mayne
# David Mayne

David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.

## Career

Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950–54; 1957–59).

He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-67 and also received his PhD in 1967 at the University of London under John Westcott. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971). At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971–91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984–88).

He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.

He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.

His students include Peter Caines.

## Awards and affiliations

* Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2014
* IEEE Control Systems Award, 2009
* Hon. DTech Lund University, 1995
* Hon, Fellow Imperial College London, 2000
* FIEEE - 1981
* FRS - 1985
* FREng - 1987
* Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006

## Selected publications

* Differential Dynamic Programming ISBN 9780444000705 (1970)
