The AACC 2003 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award has been presented to Professor Karl Hedrick and co-authors P. Seiler and A. Pant for their paper, "Disturbance Propagation in Large Interconnected Systems." The award was presented at the Awards Luncheon during the 2003 ACC in Denver, Colorado on June 05, 2003

The award is named for O. Hugo Schuck, a pioneer in the practice of flight control design at Honeywell, Inc., and later at NASA. This award was established with the purpose not only of recognizing technical contributions but for the manner and effectiveness with which they are communicated to the community at the American Control Conference. Selection criteria include quality of the written and oral presentation, technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality.