William F. Feehery, an alumni of the PSEL, has been named as president of DuPont's Industrial Biosciences business, effective Nov. 1. Since joining DuPont in 2002, William has served in a broad range of business and marketing leadership positions. We would like to extend our heartiest congratulations and wish him all the best in his…

William F. Feehery, an alumni of the PSEL, has been named as president of DuPont's Industrial Biosciences business, effective Nov. 1. Since joining DuPont in 2002, William has served in a broad range of business and marketing leadership positions. We would like to extend our heartiest congratulations and wish him all the best in his…

Ernesto Jimenez, a UROP student working in the Barton Lab under Dr. Kai Hoeffner, was recently admitted to the AMGEN Scholars Program. The program will support Ernesto in continuing his research over the summer on Building a Dynamic Biomass Maximization Model in Interactive Metabolic Systems. In July, he will attend a Research Symposium at UCLA where…

Joseph K. Scott, Matthew D. Stuber and Paul I. Barton win the Journal of Global OptimizationBest Paper Award for 2012 for their paper titled “Generalized McCormick Relaxations”. The authors are cited for examining "the McCormick relaxations from a new vantage point, unveiling new unexplored horizons for their applicability."

Richard D. Braatz is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award, which recognizes "outstanding university-industry collaboration that enables the transition of control and systems theory to practical industrial or commercial systems." The citation for this award is "for significant contribution to the control of crystallization processes in the pharmaceutical industry."

Paul Barton has won the 2011 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of AIChE's CAST Division. Paul is recognized for his pioneering research contributions in theory, numerical methods, software technologies for modeling, simulation, optimization of chemical engineering systems; and development of the field, "energy systems engineering." The CAST Computing in Chemical Engineering Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of…

Paul Barton was appointed as associate editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

Pedro Sá Gomes' paper "Gas-Phase Simulated Moving Bed separation of propane/propylene: is it worth it?" was selected as the keynote presentation at the upcoming CHEMPOR 2011 – 11th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Pedro is a post-doctoral affiliate at MIT supported by a Marie Curie fellowship. His work is co-authored by Paul Barton…

Paul Barton is giving the Bayer lecture at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His talk discusses recent work in the laboratory on Optimal Design and Operation of Natural Gas Value Chains.

Fri, 01/30/2009 – 14:12 Audun Aspelund, Ph.D. student in collaboration with NTNU, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 1st Annual Gas Processing Symposium, Doha, Qatar for his paper "The liquefied energy chain". DOI