[Updated: September 16, 2014]
Leaders of CAPEC, the Computer-Aided Process-Product Engineering Center at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), tapped Ignacio E. Grossmann, an AIChE Fellow and the Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), to deliver DTU’s inaugural CAPEC-PROCESS Lecture for 2014.
Grossmann’s lecture, entitled “The Role of Process Systems Engineering in Chemical Engineering,” provides an overview of the nature of Process Systems Engineering (PSE), discuss current trends in the field, and show how PSE relates to chemical engineering and how its application can help industries to innovate and remain competitive into the future.
The 2014 CAPEC-PROCESS Lecture streamed live on the Internet on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, at 2:30 pm Copenhagen time (8:30 am EDT) via http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dtu-broadcast.
The lecture has been archived and available for viewing via the CAPEC-PROCESS website.
A former director of AIChE, Grossmann earned his BS degree in chemical engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and his MS and PhD in chemical engineering at Imperial College. After working as an R&D engineer at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, he joined Carnegie Mellon’s faculty in 1979. At Carnegie Mellon, he is Director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making, which comprises 20 petroleum, chemical and engineering companies. Grossmann is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, AIChE, the Mexican Academy of Engineering, and is an associate editor of AIChE Journal, in addition to serving on numerous editorial boards related to computing and systems engineering. He has received numerous international honors, including AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education, and AIChE’s William H. Walker Award for Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.
CAPEC — one of six research centers within DTU’s Department of Chemical Engineering — was established in 1997 as a center for excellence, where industry and research organizations are able to collaborate on the development of technologies in the areas of computer-aided process engineering (CAPE) and process systems engineering (PSE).