Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

B. Wayne Bequette is a professor of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His teaching and research interests are in process systems and control engineering, applications of which apply in biomedical systems, pharmaceuticals, chromatography, and fairly classical chemical processes, particularly those with interesting nonlinear behavior. Dr. Bequette is an associate editor of Automatica, was the General Chair for the 2003 American Control Conference, and has served as the AIChE Director on the Board of the American Automatic Control Council. He is also the author of Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation (Pearson, 1998) and has published over 90 technical papers. He has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Arkansas and a PhD from University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on multivariable control system analysis and design. While at Rensselaer, he has served as advisor for ten PhD and four MS students, in addition to teaching chemical process dynamics and control to at least 900 undergraduate students.