Undergraduate control courses teach theory. Graduate control courses teach more theory. Vendors provide training on their products. Consider the alternative: Learn the basics of practical control engineering with these unique combinations of lectures, simulation and hands-on experimental laboratories in a four-day intensive training course with one of the world's foremost process control groups. This is the first call for registration in the following two short courses: ----------------------------------------- May 18-21, 2010 Process Control Boot Camp-Level 1: Basic Process Control including hands-on laboratory exercises on tuning and monitoring. The main focus will be on: - Tuning for regulatory and setpoint tracking - Statistical process control - Process and Performance Monitoring - Project economics and management ----------------------------------------- May 25-28, 2010 Process Control Boot Camp-Level 2: Advanced Process Control with main focus on MPC including identification and constrained multivariate control. Contents include: - Fundamentals of univariate and multivariate model-based control - Process modeling and system identification - Constrained control and optimization - Performance monitoring and maintenance ----------------------------------------- Space is limited. You are encouraged to apply early. Feel free to distribute this freely to all interested personnel in your organization. More detailed information on the course content, course fees, location etc. is available at: http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cme/cpcbootcamp.cfm Keywords: Process control short courses; model-based control courses; process and performance monitoring; -- Sirish L. Shah NSERC-Matrikon-Suncor-iCORE Senior Industrial Research Chair Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G6 Phone: +1-780-492-5162 http://www.ualberta.ca/~slshah