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CPSE 20th Anniversary Celebrations and 16th Professpr Roger Sargent Lecture - 3rd December 2009
CPSE 20th Anniversary Celebrations
It is with great pleasure that I announce the 20th Anniversary of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering. We celebrated this momentous occasion on 3rd December 2009, along with its founding Director Professor Roger Sargent who played a unique role in shaping the future of Process Systems Engineering research.
Speakers included: Prof Roger Sargent, Prof Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof Ana Barbosa (Instituto Superior Técnico), Prof Jay Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology), Prof Paul Stuart (Polytechnique Montréal). In addition, this very special occasion included the 16th Professor Roger Sargent Lecture which was given by Prof Costas Pantelides (PSE Ltd/Imperial) titled "Process Modelling: A Progress Report."
Today, 20 years since its inauguration, the Centre for Process Systems Engineering continues to provide excellent research and its reputation is renowned worldwide.
Professor Nilay Shah, CPSE Director
History of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering
The Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) is a multi-institutional research centre and was inaugurated in August 1989. It involves Imperial College London and University College London, and is based at the Imperial College London South Kensington campus.
As the founding Director of the Centre from 1989 to his retirement in 1992, Professor Roger Sargent has played a unique role in shaping the future of systems engineering research. CPSE has continued with Professor Sargent's legacy and remains a Centre of Excellence.
The Centre is an international research leader in Process Systems Engineering concerned with the management of complexity in uncertain systems, modelled across many time and scale lengths. Process Engineers are concerned with systems involving physical and chemical change and aim to manage complexity in such systems. Process Systems Engineering is the study of approaches to analysis and design of complex process engineering systems and the development tools and techniques required for this.
The tools enable Process Systems Engineers to systematically develop products and processes across a wide range of systems involving chemical and physical change: from molecular and genetic phenomena to manufacturing processes and to related business processes.
The Centre is dedicated to performing research and to developing integrated models, methodologies and tools to exploit complex, multi-scaled physical, engineering and industrial systems through:
• Requirements and functional analysis
• Modelling and design
• Simulation
• Optimisation
• Experimentation
• Visualisation
Our research is highly relevant primarily to a range of industries including the oil and gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, polymers, food and beverage and consumer sectors.
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