Title:"Designing the Process Design Process"
Professor Westerberg is a distinguished pioneer in the areas of process modelling and design. He received a BS from the University of Minnesota in 1960, an MS from Princeton University in 1961, and a PhD from Imperial College at the University of London in 1964, all in Chemical Engineering.
He spent two years with Control Data Corporation in San Diego before joining the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Florida in 1967. He joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1976, where he has served as Director of the Design Research Center (1978-80) and as a founding Director of the Engineering Design Research Center (1986-89). He is presently the Swearingen University Professor in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Title: "Systems design: Human considerations in the future of technology"
Professor Rosenbrock is retired from his position as Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), but he is still very active, with a special interest for the human dimension of technology and automation. He received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in engineering, and the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the University of London, UK, in 1941, 1955 and 1963, respectively.
From 1941 to 1946 he was a Signals Officer with the Royal Air Force, and then until 1962 held various positions in industry and consulting, mostly at John Brown Ltd. where he was appointed Research Manager in 1957. During this time he worked actively in a number of process systems engineering areas, including distillation column dynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, optimization and control. From 1962 to 1966 he was with the University of Cambridge, before being appointed to Professor at UMIST in 1966. Dr. Rosenbrock is the author of four books on control and systems theory, and two books on human dimensions of technology.
Title: "Model predictive control: Past, present and future."
Professor Morari is a recognized leader in the area of chemical process control and optimization. He has a Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, 1974, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1977.
His professional background includes industrial practice from Exxon Research and Engineering Company and ICI Ltd., and he has held academic positions in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin and in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Presently, he is Professor and Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Title: "Computers, models, and the real world - a viewpoint from the process industry."
Knut Harg is Head of Norsk Hydro's Research Center in Porsgrunn. With more than 400 employees this is the largest corporate research facility in Norway. Mr. Harg received a siv.ing. degree in 1974 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, and a M.S. degree in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, both in chemical engineering. He then worked actively in the area of process systems engineering for about four years at Norsk Hydro's Research Center. He has later held various positions in plant operation, engineering and management in Norsk Hydro, before assuming his present position in 1995.