Béla Lipták was born in 1936 in Hungary. As a Technical University student, he participated in the revolution against the Soviet occupation, escaped, and entered the United States as a refugee in 1956. He received an engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1959 and a master’s degree from CCNY in 1962. He later did graduate work at Pratt ... Read moreInstitute. In 1960, he became the Chief Instrument Engineer of Crawford and Russell, where he led the automation of dozens of industrial plants for more than a decade. In 1969, he published the multivolume Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook, which today is in its 5th edition. In 1975, he received his professional engineering license and founded his consulting firm, Béla Lipták Associates PC, which provides design and consulting services in the fields of automation and industrial safety. Over the years he lectured on automation at many universities around the world, including Yale University, where he taught automation as an adjunct professor in 1987. His more than 50 years of professional experience include the automation of several dozen industrial plants, the publication of over 300 technical articles, and over 20 books, all dealing with various aspects of automation. In 1973, he was elected an ISA fellow. In 1995, he received the Technical Achievement Award from ISA. He was the keynote speaker at the 2002 and 2011 ISA conferences, and in 2012 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ISA. Show Less