Criteria of Membership

• Academics appointed in the past 5 years, with research interests in automatic control and related subject areas. If an applicant has been appointed an academic position for more than 5 years, his/her case will be discussed by the Steering Committee.
• Researchers who intend to pursue an academic career in automatic control and recommended by advisory members or core members.
• People who work in industry with an interest in control engineering.

Benefits of Membership

As a member of the New-ACE network, all members enjoy a number of benefits from the network, including

• Free access to the forums and all shared resources and database maintained by the network
• Free registration for all the 6 scheduled workshops organised by the network Financial support to cover all travel expenses and subsistence to attend the 6 scheduled workshops (about 25 people for each workshop, on the first-come-first-served basis)
• Financial support for attending national events organised by the network and other professional bodies like IEEE, UKACC, IET etc (maximal £200 for attending each event, need to apply and first-come-first-served).
• Free advertisement of events or news on the network website
• Interact with other like-minded members through our on-line community
• Take advantage of career advice from fellow and advisory members Identify academic or industrial collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with members
• Support and promote the network, by

• Participating and contributing to activities organised by the network.

• Enhancement of the network’s contribution to control society and wider community

• Actively contributing to the control society at national and international level as a representative of the New-ACE network and to improve the network visibility at national and international level

• Helping the New-ACE network with short-term and long-term development strategy at national and international level, including network sustainability, funding opportunities, network expansion, etc.

• Pursue and advance knowledge

Network members contribute to the broader society through scholarship including discovery, application and integration of ideas that enhance the understanding of control engineering in different fields. Members fulfil their scholarship obligations in ways that match their professional backgrounds, abilities, interests and their institutions’ specific missions. Some aspects of these include

• Establishing and maintaining a scholarship agenda that is directed to important societal and professional needs and stretches member’s knowledge as well as the network’s knowledge base

• Maintaining and strengthening scholarly competence, consistent with the requirements of each member’s own research and career development agenda, in collaboration with other members of the network and scholars in broader community

• Publishing one’s scholarship in ways that make the results available both to the members of the network and to broader community

• Encouraging and promoting a variety of scholarship approaches that result quality work and contribute to the enhancement of scholarship and the public good, such as organising workshops and seminars, research collaborations, joint research projects, exchange of career development experience, etc