Nordic Process Control Award till Thomas F. Edgar

At the 23rd Nordic Process Control Workshop, the Nordic Process Control Award was given to Professor Thomas F. Edgar.

Thomas F. Edgar is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair Emeritus in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and former Director of the UT Energy Institute. For nearly 50 years, Edgar has concentrated his academic work in process modelling, control, and optimization, and has published over 500 articles and book chapters in the above fields applied to separations, chemical reactors, energy systems, and semiconductor manufacturing. His research has focused on control theory and computation for nonlinear and large-scale systems where he has supervised more than 80 Ph.D. students.

Edgar has co-authored two leading textbooks: Optimization of Chemical Processes (McGraw-Hill, 1988 and 2001) and Process Dynamics and Control, 4th ed. (Wiley, 2016) with Dale Seborg, Duncan Mellichamp, and Frank Doyle. Tom Edgar was co-founder of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC; https://smart-process-manufacturing.ucla.edu/), which develops software tools for saving energy in industrial plants.