Professor Bélanger is known internationally for his authoritative contributions to automatic control, control theory and robotics and as the author of the textbook Control Engineering: A Modern Approach. Bélanger has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at McGill since 1967. He is also experienced in academic administration, having served a decade as dean of the Faculty of Engineering, as well as vice-principal, Research, and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. He has also served widely outside the university, for example, as vice-chair of the Defence Science Advisory Board and of NABST.