He chairs several national and international projects between industry and academia concerning the application of STEP in the design and operation of process plants and the development of a data warehouse for unified production systems. He specialized in production control, operating procedures and safety studies. For postscript files of some recent papers, click here . The research group of Prof. George Stephanopoulos at MIT aims at the development of new problem formulations, as well as of formal theoretical frameworks and methodologies for the solution of important process systems engineering problems, such as product design, plant-wide control and operability analysis, diagnosis and operations support. Additionally their research includes a number of computer technology topics such as intelligent and distributed object-oriented databases and concurrent engineering.
Collaboration is under way in a variety of common research fields.
Prof. Wang and his colleages work on the development of a distributed concurrent engineering environment at the Department of Chemical Engineering within the University of Leeds. Collaboration includes exchange of information and co-authoring of papers. Issues commonly addressed are concurrent process engineering, its computer implementation and operational design. Imperial College Prof. Perkins is the head of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College. His research interests include computer applications in process design, operation, control, modelling and simulation.