Title :
Teaching process control in the 21st century: what has changed?
Author :
Seborg, D.E. ; Edgar, T.F. ; Mellichamp, D.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
The process control course should continue to be a required course for chemical engineering undergraduates because of its fundamental importance and because a large number of graduates are employed in manufacturing or fields connected to manufacturing. Process control technology has changed considerably during the past 15 years, requiring that textbooks to be updated accordingly. In this paper, we discuss some of these changes in the context of revising one of the leading textbooks in process control, "Process Dynamics and Control". Trends that influence how process control will be taught in the future are identified.
Keywords :
control engineering education; educational courses; optimisation; predictive control; process control; teaching; three-term control; PID control; chemical engineering; digital control; educational course; manufacturing; model predictive control; multivariable control; process control; process dynamics; teaching; textbooks; Control systems; Digital control; Education; Frequency response; Laplace equations; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Process control; Three-term control; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7896-2
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2003.1239104
