Center for Process Systems Engineering
School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
311 Ferst Drive, N.W. • Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Phone: 404-385-2148 • Fax: 404-894-2866
E-mail: jay.lee@chbe.gatech.edu
Welcome
We are pleased to
announce the establishment of a new Center for Process Systems Engineering
at Georgia Tech. While many successful industry/university centers focused
on process systems engineering already exist, what distinguishes this
center are the breadth of topics and the global alliances we are building
with top international institutions like Imperial College London and
University College London. The center will harbor research and educational
activities spanning a whole range of length scales seen in chemical
process industries, from molecular phenomena to enterprise-wide optimization.
We also plan to leverage our unique partnership with the successful
Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London and
University College London to deliver maximum value to the participating
companies. Thank you for your interest and we invite you to contact
us for more information.
The Center for Process Systems Engineering will become a world leader
in research and education that will sustain the process industries’
innovation embodied in products or processes.
Our Vision, Goals
and Thematic Basis
The goals of the CPSE at Georgia Tech are:
• To conduct
research in product and process systems which is internationally recognized
for its excellence, leadership, and the quality of the faculty and Ph.D.
students associated with it.
• To develop industry partnerships to solve significant problems
of interest in product and process systems.
• To sustain competitive advantages for its members through continuing
education and knowledge transfer to industry in the form of students,
short courses, research prototypes and pre-prints.
The basic thesis
of this program is that the pace of technological development is accelerating
and process and product cycles shortening. This makes it vital that
innovations move rapidly from basic research to the market place. Addressing
this supply chain systematically will require research that integrates
basic scientific discovery with systems thinking which will enable constraints
and objectives to be applied at the appropriate length scales and time
in the development and design process.