• DocumentCode
    2185863
  • 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
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    4-6 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    710
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7896-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.2003.1239104
  • Filename
    1239104