TRIAL MEMBERSHIP A company may join the Center with

TRIAL MEMBERSHIP A company may join the Center with reduced benefits at a rate of $10K per annum for the first two years. Trial membership will entitle the company to enjoy the same benefits of general membership except for a benchmarking day. After the two year trial period, the company must decide whether to switch to the full membership or withdraw from the center. The industrial membership support will be leveraged to bring in additional funding from various federal and state agencies. The current sponsors of the faculty include NSF, ACS-PRF, DOE, the State of Georgia, ONR, DARPA, AFSOR, NASA and NOAA. MEMBER BENEFITS •Participation in annual meetings and workshops sponsored by the center and the super-center • Ability to bring forth research issues and shape the course of the center research •Early disclosure and right of first refusal on Center Intellectual Property •Access to technical report series and the center web site •Software evaluation •Discounted fees on short courses and symposia •Residency program for company personnel •One day of briefing per year at company site or Georgia Tech to benchmark the company’s current process systems activities and for companies to brief the center on their needs •Early evaluation and recruitment of the center’s graduate students (for both permanent employ ment and summer internships) •Information exchange forum with other compa nies, vendors, and academics •Participation in graduate student advisory committees R E L AT I O N S H I P W I T H T H E CENTRE FOR PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING www.ps.ic.ac.uk The Center will explore, foster and exploit the budding relationship with CPSE at Imperial College London and University College London. An international center is being developed that will merge the two centers. The following activities are being pursued jointly with the London CPSE on an immediate basis: CPSE R E C E N T I N D U S T R I A L C O L L A B O R ATO R S •AspenTech •Celanese •IBM •LG Chemicals •Owens Corning •Weyerhaeuser •Biennial meeting for the international center •Joint technical report series •Joint development and teaching of short courses •Joint workshops and symposia •Research collaboration •Joint proposals •Student/faculty exchange It has been agreed by the two parties that the two centers will be merged to form an international center (i-CPSE) in 2005. C O N TA C T I N F O R M AT I O N Professor Jay H. Lee 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 jay.lee@chbe.gatech.edu www.cpse.gatech.edu FOREWORD The Center for Process Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech (GT-CPSE) is pursuing research and education in process systems engineering through focused partnerships with industry. The Center’s unique program spanning the length scales seen in chemical process industries, from molecular phenomena to enterprise-wide decisions, is currently being advised and supported by an industrial consortium composed of several international process and vendor companies. We are also building global alliances with top international institutions like Imperial College London and University College London to pool an unparalleled set of talents and expertise in the area to address important industrial and societal problems using systems thinking and computational tools. Through our partnership with the successful London Centre for Process Systems Engineering, we will strive to become an international leader shaping the future of this important area and deliver maximum value to the participating companies. We invite you to contact us to join us in this important endeavor. Chain Management, Process Design and Optimization •Ronald Rousseau, Professor & Chair, ChBE – Crystallization, Modeling and Control of Crystal Size Distributions and Morphology OUR VISION, GOALS T H E M AT I C B A S I S AND 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. The goals of the CPSE at Georgia Tech are: •To conduct research in product and process sys tems which is internationally recognized for its excellence, leadership, and the quality of the fac ulty and Ph.D. students associated with it. •To develop industry partnerships to solve signifi cant 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. •To partner with the Centre for Process Systems Engineering to form an international center. The basic thesis of the Center 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. •Supply chain optimization of a multi-site polymer grade production and distribution system. •Development of real-time malfunction diagnosis algorithms for plasma processing equipment. •Modeling and optimization of laser ablation tools to enable process control. •Development of novel materials characterization tools/sensors for product quality monitoring and process control in photoresist polymer production. •Development of material performance models and model parameter extraction for advanced photore sists and photoresist processes. MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE A participating company will have the following options for financial commitment and involvement: GENERAL MEMBERSHIP Annual membership due is $30K. This entitles the member to enjoy all of the benefits listed. RESEARCH MEMBERSHIP When a company maintains a contractual research worth more than $50K per annum with the center faculty, all of the benefits of general membership may be enjoyed at a 50% reduced dues of $15K per annum. General membership entitles a company to bring forth research issues of the company’s interest, shape the course of the research, and have early access to the details of the research outcomes through research reports and meetings. Such research will, however, be general in nature and Georgia Tech will retain all rights to intellectual properties and publications. Companies will have early access and first right of refusal to the Center intellectual property. In addition to the general membership, projects with specific deliverables may be arranged with one or more Center faculty members. Contracts for these projects will clearly specify deliverables and intellectual property arrangements. F A C U LT Y •Shabbir Ahmed, Assistant Professor, ISyE – Stochastic Programming, Network Design, Capacity Planning, Finance •Martha Grover Gallivan, Assistant Professor, ChBE – Modeling, Sensing and Control for Semiconductor Processing •Clifford Henderson, Associate Professor, ChBE – Lithography Materials and Process Development, Micro-fabricated Sensors • Sven Koenig, Assistant Professor, CS – AI based Learning, Planning, Web-based Auctions, Robotics •Jay Lee, Director & Professor, ChBE – Process Control, Real-Time Optimization, System Identification,Optical Sensors •Peter Ludovice, Associate Professor, ChBE – Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Materials Design •Athanasios Nenes, Assistant Professor, ChBE & EAS – Modeling of Multiphase Flows and Atmospheric Quality •Matthew Realff, Associate Director & Associate Professor, ChBE – Forward and Reverse Supply R E C E N T C O L L A B O R AT I V E P R O J E C T S •Development of novel batch process models and new control strategies for a cellulose acetate production process.