Abstract Process Systems Engineering (PSE) is the scientific discipline of integrating scales
and components describing the behavior of a physicochemical system, via mathematical …

Engineering education is facing major challenges as it seeks to provide necessary and
robust practical experience for all its undergraduate students. The limitation of resources …

This article studies the relevance of innovative Process Systems Engineering (PSE) tools
that can reformulate trained machine learning models that are driven by advances in …

The digitalisation megatrend is currently changing the way whole sectors of the economy
are operated and in the manufacturing sector, digitalisation promises productivity …

Abstract Recently, the Brazilian Ministry of Education issued New Curriculum Guidelines for
engineering programs. This paper encompasses a pedagogical intervention reflecting our …

The level of safety and efficiency of technological processes operation largely depends on
the qualifications of operating personnel. In continuous processes of such industries as …

This paper proposes a new multi-objective dynamic differential evolution algorithm with
parameter self-adaptive strategies, named SA-MODDE. All components of the algorithm are …

Process simulators are powerful supporting tools employed at all educational levels of
engineering education. Meanwhile, digitalization is obliging the educational systems to …

Since its initial development in the 1980′ s, Real-Time Optimization (RTO) has been widely
appreciated as an efficient way to optimize process decision variables and improve …

Virtual labs are valuable educational resources in control education, and are widely used in
the process industry as tools for operator training and decision aid. In these application …