Education

• Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Research

Areas of Interest

• Differential equations
• Differential-algebraic equations
• Systems and control theory (mathematical control theory)
• Controllability
• Observability
• Stability and stabilization
• Input-output
• State space system representations

Publications

Dr. Terrell’s publications include research papers in the following journals:

• SIAM J. on Control and Optimization
• SIAM J. on Matrix Analysis and Applications
• Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
• Linear Algebra and its Applications
• The American Mathematical Monthly
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

He is the author of a graduate text: W. J. Terrell, Stability and Stabilization: An Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2009. 

Affiliations

• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
• MAA (Mathematical Association of America)
• AMS (American Mathematical Society)
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)

Awards

• Lester R. Ford award (2000) from the Mathematical Association of America for a two-part article on systems and control theory in the American Mathematical Monthly