** Virtual Library for Process Systems Engineering **

http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasilectures.htm



If you are teaching or taking a graduate level course in the area of 

Process Systems Engineering, you may want to learn about a new update of 

the virtual library on Process Systems Engineering. This library was 

initially created from the workshop Pan American Advanced Studies 

Institute (PASI-2005) on Process Systems Engineering that took place on 

August 16-25, 2005, in Iguazú, Argentina. The library has been updated 

recently with material from the second workshop PASI-2008 on Emerging 

Trends in Process Systems Engineering that took place in Mar del Plata, 

Argentina, August 12-21, 2008. The goal of both these workshops was to 

provide a state-of-the-art review and to  bring together faculty and 

Ph.D. students from various countries in the Americas (U.S., Canada, 

Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela).



The PASI-2005 workshop covered the following areas:

- Optimization

- Process and Product Design

- Process and Supply Chain Operations

- Process Dynamics and Control

and material on these topics can be found in:

http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasi2005/slides/index.htm



while the  PASI-2008 covered these areas:

- Advanced Modeling Tools

- Biosystems Engineering

- Multiscale Design of New Materials

- Complex Engineering Systems

- Sustainability

- New Energy Systems

- Enterprise-wide Optimization

and material on these topics can be found in:

http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasi2008/slides/index.html



The virtual library, http://cepac.cheme.cmu.edu/pasilectures.htm, 

consists of the Powerpoint slides of the presentations of each topic, 

which are largely tutorial in nature. These are complemented with 

background articles that provide comprehensive reviews. Exercises, as 

well as MATLAB and GAMS files are also available, including 

comprehensive exams for each workshop that contain questions with answers.



Members of the Process Systems Engineering community should hopefully 

find the material to be helpful since it contains useful overviews of 

areas that are of current interest and that are not normally found in 

textbooks and reference texts. We intend to periodically update the 

presentations, and we will appreciate your feedback or comments.





Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University [log in to unmask]

Jaime Cerdá, INTEC, Argentina [log in to unmask]

Frank Doyle III, UCSB [log in to unmask]

Argemiro Secchi, [log in to unmask]