American Automatic Control Council

What American Automatic Control Council does

The American Automatic Control Council (AACC), operating as AACC and A2C2, is a Delaware-incorporated not-for-profit professional federation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Founded in 1957 as a charter member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), AACC serves as the sole U.S. National Member Organization of IFAC and represents the United States within the global automatic control community. It is governed as a federation of nine member societies — AIAA, AIChE, ASCE, ASME, IEEE (Control Systems Society), ISA, SCS, SIAM (Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory), and INFORMS Applied Probability Society — each of which appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board.

AACC's primary activities are conference organization, awards administration, IFAC representation, and control education outreach. Its flagship product is the annual American Control Conference (ACC), a three-day interdisciplinary event drawing approximately 1,600 participants and over 1,100 refereed papers, supplemented by the Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC) and support for U.S.-hosted IFAC workshops and symposia. The Council administers six recognized awards including the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike Control Practice Award, Donald P. Eckman Award, John R. Ragazzini Education Award, O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and ACC Best Student Paper Award. It also produces K-12 through postgraduate educational resources on control technology.

The organization's revenue model is event-and-publication driven. Conference income, publication royalties, and member-society dues form the financial base; AACC does not sell individual memberships or commercial technology products. By long-standing practice, excess income from conferences and publications is redistributed to member societies in proportion to their members' participation in the ACC. The organization runs on approximately two part-time staff and roughly 200 rotating volunteers, with leadership drawn from faculty at MIT, Purdue, RPI, University of Washington, Caltech, USC, UIUC, and other major institutions, alongside industry representatives from Linde, IBM Research, NSF, and ViaSat.

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American Automatic Control Council

Legal name

American Automatic Control Council, Inc.

Website

https://a2c2.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The American Automatic Control Council is a 501(c)(3) federation of nine U.S. engineering societies that serves as the U.S. National Member Organization of IFAC, operating the annual American Control Conference (~1,600 participants, 1,100+ papers), the MECC conference series, six control-systems awards, and K-12 through postgraduate education outreach, staffed by two part-time employees and ~200 volunteers.

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Professional Association Services (Automatic Control)

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

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Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA)

Keywords

• Automatic control association
• Professional engineering society
• Control systems conferences
• Academic research federation
• IFAC national member

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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B2B

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Services

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Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Revenue: AACC hosts the annual American Control Conference (ACC) which generates income. Excess income from conferences is returned to member societies in proportion to their members' participation in the ACC.
2. Membership Dues: Each member society pays an annual dues fee to AACC. However, throughout AACC's history, income from conferences and publications has made it possible to return the dues along with additional funds that member societies can use to support their activities.
3. Publication Income: Income from publications contributes to AACC's revenue. Excess income from publications, like conference revenue, is returned to member societies in proportion to their members' participation.

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Core offering

AACC is a not-for-profit federation that promotes cooperation across the U.S. automatic control profession by organizing the annual American Control Conference (ACC) and Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC), running six award programs that recognize contributions to control theory and practice, and serving as the U.S. National Member Organization to IFAC. It also coordinates U.S. delegates to IFAC, supports IFAC workshops and symposia hosted in the United States, and provides control-education resources spanning K-12 through post-graduate study.

Product overview

The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) is a professional association that serves as the United States' National Member Organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC). Rather than a technology product company, AACC operates as an all-volunteer organization with two part-time employees that provides services to the automatic control community. Its core offerings include organizing and hosting the annual American Control Conference (ACC) and the Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC), administering six prestigious awards recognizing contributions to control theory and practice (Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike Control Practice Award, Donald P. Eckman Award, John R. Ragazzini Education Award, O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and ACC Best Student Paper Award), supporting IFAC workshops and symposia in the US, and providing control education resources.

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• American Control Conference (ACC) Annual three-day interdisciplinary conference sponsored by AACC that draws about 1,600 participants and over 1,100 refereed papers, serving as an internationally recognized venue for disseminating ideas, methodology, and networking among leaders in academe, research labs, and industry.
• Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC) Technical conference series organized by AACC that focuses on modeling, estimation, and control systems topics, forming part of the federation's technical meeting portfolio alongside the ACC.
• Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award Annual AACC award given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists.
• Babatunde A. Ogunnaike Control Practice Award Annual AACC award given to one individual or one team for significant contribution to the advancement of control practice in industrial applications.
• Donald P. Eckman Award Annual AACC award that recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control.
• John R. Ragazzini Education Award Annual AACC award that recognizes outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form, supporting K-12 through post-graduate pedagogy.
• O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award Annual AACC award recognizing up to one application paper and one theory paper published in ACC conference proceedings, presented by the authors at the previous ACC.
• ACC Best Student Paper Award Annual AACC award presented at the ACC that recognizes the best student paper among conference submissions.
• IFAC Technical Meetings Support in the U.S. Coordination and hosting support that AACC provides for various IFAC workshops and symposia held in the United States, along with provision of U.S. delegates to the International Federation of Automatic Control.
• Control Education Resources Educational resource collection providing ACC Plenary Lectures, YouTube videos that reveal automation, and educational materials about control technology for K-12 through post-graduate study.

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1957AACC is the US National Member Organization (NMO) of IFAC, representing the United States to the world automatic control community. AACC was formed in 1957 as a charter member of IFAC, one of 18 founding members. AACC provides delegates from the U.S. to IFAC and provides volunteers for IFAC activities. IFAC was founded in 1957 and the requirement for U.S. membership was that there exists a national society representing the control interests in the country. IFAC organizes the triennial World Congress, and AACC has successfully hosted IFAC Congress in the USA in 1975 (Boston) and 1996 (San Francisco).
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. AIAA appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. AIChE appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. ASCE appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. ASME appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. IEEE appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors. The IEEE Control Systems Society is specifically referenced.
• International Society for Automation (ISA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. ISA appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. SCS appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. SIAM appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors. The SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory is specifically referenced.
• Applied Probability Society (APS) - INFORMScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of nine member societies of AACC. APS is a subdivision of INFORMS and appoints a Director and Alternate to the AACC Board of Directors.

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