Process Dynamics and Control, 4th EMEA Edition Paperback - 2019

DALE E. SEBORG is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. Dr. Seborg has published over 200 articles and co-edited three books on process control and related topics. Dr. Seborg has served on the Editorial Advisor Boards for control engineering journals and book series, and has been a co-organizer of several major conferences. He is an active industrial consultant who serves as an expert witness in legal proceedings.

THOMAS F. EDGAR holds the Abell Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has published over 300 papers in the field of process control, optimization, and mathematical modeling of processes such as separations, combustion, and microelectronics processing. Dr. Edgar was president of AIChE in 1997 and President of the American Automatic Control Council in 1989-91.

DUNCAN A. MELLICHAMP is professor Emeritus and founding member of the faculty of the chemical engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of an early book on data acquisition and control computing and has published more than one hundred papers on process modeling, large scale/plantwide systems analysis, and computer control. He earned a B.S. degree from Georgia Tech and a Ph.D. from Purdue University with intermediate studies at the Technische Universitt Stuttgart (Germany). He presently serves on the governing boards of several nonprofit organizations.

FRANCIS J. DOYLE, III is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Control in the Department of Chemical Engineering, as well as appointments in the Electrical Engineering Department, and the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program. He received his B.S.E. from Princeton, C.P.G.S. from Cambridge, and Ph.D. from Caltech, all in Chemical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and AIMBE; he is also the recipient of multiple research awards (including the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award) as well as teaching awards (including the ASEE Ray Fahien Award).