A Scientia PhD scholarship in the area of Process Systems Engineering/Process Control at School of Chemical Engineering, the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) is available: Project title: Distributed Control for Next Generation Smart Flexible Process Plants Supervisory team: Professor Jie Bao ([log in to unmask]), School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Engineering Professor Sami Kara, School of Mechanical Engineering, UNSW Engineering Dr Stuart Prescott, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Engineering Project summary: Globalization of the world economy has led to increasing dynamics of the market demand. The business in the process industry needs to have the flexibility to dynamically adjust the volume and specifications of the products and deal with diverse sources of raw materials and utilities to remain competitive. This project aims to develop a fundamental process control framework for flexible production and optimized process economy, a key feature of next generation smart plants (as a component of INDUSTRY 4.0), based on the dissipativity and contraction control theories, chemical process design, machine learning and flexible manufacturing principles. This novel control approach will be applied to formulation and production of pharmaceuticals for personalized medicine. This project is also supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grant DP180101717. Benefits of the Scholarship: • Work on high quality research projects with the best supervisory teams in world class environments • 40K Australian dollars per year stipend (tax free) for four years • Tuition fees covered for the full 4 year period • Coaching and mentoring will form a critical part of your highly personalised leadership development plan • Up to 10K Australian dollars each year to build your career and support your international research collaborations The PhD program starts early 2019 (February 2019). Applicants from Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science with experience in control theory and applications are welcome. If you are interested, please submit an expression of interest to Prof. Jie Bao via the following website by 20 July 2018: https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/distributed- control-next-generation-smart-flexible-process-plants-0 More information regarding the UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme can be found at: http://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/?interest=scholarships More information regarding the Process Control Research Group at UNSW can be found at: http://www.ceic.unsw.edu.au/processcontrol/processcontrol.htm Best regards, Jie Professor Jie Bao Acting Head of School School of Chemical Engineering UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia Tel: +61 (2) 9385-6755 Fax: +61 (2) 9385-5966 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ceic.unsw.edu.au/staff/Jie_Bao/jie_bao.asp