title: David Mayne
text: # 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)
  