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Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol.128, 538-556, 2019
Process control practice and education: Past, present and future
Process control is a relatively young field, with commercial PID-type controllers developed largely in the 1930's. Initial publications were applications-focused and authored primarily by instrumentation and control vendors. While some chemical engineering departments had instrumentation and control courses by the 1940's, process control textbooks with a theoretical basis did not appear until the mid-1950's, yet by 1950 there was already a concern about a theory vs. practice "gap." Evolving views on this gap are discussed, and course content, delivery and textbooks used during the past 75 years are reviewed. The focus then turns to a flipped classroom, where students view screencasts, read textbook material and take an on-line quiz before class, which has been implemented in a process dynamics and control course. The class periods involve brief lectures summarizing what they have studied, and include discussions and advanced problem solving using MATLAB and Simulink. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.