Contributed by: Elling W. Jacobsen, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden


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  Roger W.H. Sargent receives the Nordic Process Control Award
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The Nordic Process Control Award is awarded for lasting and significant
contributions to the field of process control. The sixth recipient of
this award is Professor Roger W.H. Sargent from Imperial College of
Science and Technology, London, UK. Professor Sargent is widely regarded
as the "father" of process systems engineering.


The award was presented to professor Sargent on January 9, 2003 during
the 11th Nordic Process Control Workshop held in Trondheim, Norway.  The
title of his inspiring award lecture was "Modelling - a Process Systems
Perspective".


The previous recipients of this award are Howard H. Rosenbrock (1995),
Karl
Johan Astrom (1997), F. Greg Shinskey (1998), Jens G. Balchen (2000) and
Charles Cutler (2001).  The award is awarded by the Nordic Working
Group on
Process Control. For more information on the working group, see:
www.chembio.ntnu.no/users/skoge/npc.html



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Elling W. Jacobsen
S3 - Process Control
Royal Institute of Technology - KTH
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden


Email: jacobsen@s3.kth.se
Phone: +46 8 790 7325
Fax  : +46 8 790 7329
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