{"id":5466,"date":"2023-08-09T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:31:37","slug":"steffanlloyd-wins-best-student-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/2023\/steffanlloyd-wins-best-student-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS: Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate wins Best Student Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        GOOD NEWS: Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate wins Best Student Paper\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to Carleton University\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate, <strong>Steffan Lloyd<\/strong>, for winning <strong>Best Student Paper<\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mecc2022.a2c2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2022)<\/a> in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.&nbsp; The conference was hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/a2c2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Automatic Control Council (AACC)<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifac-control.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-5464 size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-400x711.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-400x711.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-300x534.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-768x1366.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-1400x2490.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-1151x2048.jpeg 1151w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1-700x1245.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper1.jpeg 1871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ph.D. candidate, Steffan Lloyd, receives award for Best Student Paper at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2022) in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Steffan presented his winning paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Application of Pseudo-Symbolic Dynamic Modeling (PDSM) in the Modeling and Calibration of a 6-DOF Articulated Robot<\/em><\/a>\u201d, which can be read here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper was coauthored by Lloyd\u2019s supervisors, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/profile\/rishad-irani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Rishad Irani<\/a>, and Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/profile\/mojtaba-ahmadi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mojtaba Ahmadi<\/a>, both of Carleton\u2019s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-5465 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-1400x1050.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-1400x1050.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-700x525.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Steffan-Lloyd-conference-paper2-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ph.D. candidate, Steffan Lloyd presenting his paper, &#8220;Application of Pseudo-Symbolic Dynamic Modeling (PSDM) in the Modeling and Calibration of a 6-DOF Articulated Robot\u201d at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2022) in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations again to Steffan Lloyd on this award for his paper.&nbsp; We wish him all the best in his continuing studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Carleton University\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate, Steffan Lloyd, for winning Best Student Paper at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2022) in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.&nbsp; The conference was hosted by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Steffan presented his winning paper, \u201cApplication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}