Designing Controls for the Process Industries - Seames, Wayne

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Résumé :
Offering a modern, process-oriented approach emphasizing process control scheme development the text focuses on aspects that are most important for current process engineering and reflects industry use of digital distributed control-based systems. The new edition features dozens of tutorial videos showing solutions to most of the example problems....

Biographie:

Professor Wayne S. Seames is Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of North Dakota (UND). He has been Director, The SUNRISE BioProducts Center of Excellence at UND since 2009 and Director, The Sustainable Energy Research Initiative and Supporting Education Research Supercluster at UND, since 2004. Before joining UND, Prof. Seames was an independent consultant at Seaway Consulting, Tucson, Arizona, and an instructor at University of Arizona. Prof Seames is also an expert in the field of Process Plant Automation. He has direct Project Management experience in the scope definition, design development, implementation, and maintenance of Process Control Systems, Integration Systems, Plant Automation, and Management Information Systems. He has also supervised the operation of an operational Refinery Management Information system and also has direct Plant Operations support experience in the Refining industry.

Prof. Seames was awarded The Fulbright Foundation's 2014/15 Distinguished Chair Scholar at the University of Leeds; 2013 UND Faculty Scholar Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service; 2012 UND Faculty Spirit of Achievement Award; 2011 UND Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor; 2007 UND Award for Excellence in Individual Research (University Researcher of the Year); 2006 UND School of Engineering and Mines Professor of the Year (Outstanding teacher); Award for Excellence at the Student Interface from the Univ. of Arizona College of Engineering and Mines, 1999 (Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award); and 2004-2005 Olson Professor for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, UND SEM. He has published 2 invited book chapters, 47 refereed journal publications, 20 additional papers, over 100 research reports, as well 4 teaching- related publications, and over 50 proprietary industrial publications.