CAPD - Center for Advanced Process Decision-making

Recent Awards

Larry Biegler Larry Biegler receives Lectureship award for outstanding achievement in chemical engineering fundamentals, American Society of Engineering Education, June, 2017 Larry Biegler wins 2015 William H. Walker Award Larry Biegler was elected 2014 Fellow of SIAM Larry Biegler is elected to the National Academy of Engineering and receives honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin. Larry Biegler wins Nordic Process Award: Professor Larry Biegler was awarded the Nordic Process Control Award which is given to outstanding process control professionals who have made a lasting and significant contribution to the field of process control. Larry was presented the award at the 17th Nordic Process Control Workshop that took place at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, January 25-27, 2012 Larry Biegler and his former student Andreas Wachter win the 2009 ICS Prize of the INFORMS Computing Society. \| Read more Larry Biegler has been promoted to University Professor at Carnegie Mellon Ignacio Grossmann Ignacio Grossmann receives Award for Long Term Achievements in Computer Aided Process Engineering from the Working Party on CAPE of the EFCE, 2017 Ignacio Grossmann receives Chemical Engineering Medal from ETH Zurich, 2017 Ignacio Grossmann receives Hougen Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2017 Ignacio Grossmann in the 2018 list of top computer scientits. The 2018 rankings of top scientists in the arena of Computer Science and Electronics are based on Google Scholar h-index and were released in March 2018. According to the report, Ignacio Grossmann is ranked at position 55 worldwide and with a national ranking of 41 in United States. Ignacio Grossmann receives honorary degree from Kazan National Research Technological University, 2016 Ignacio Grossmann wins 2015 Constantin Carathéodory Prize Ignacio Grossmann was named 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher Ignacio Grossmann receives the Luis Federico Leloir Award for international cooperation with Argentina. Ignacio Grossmann received an honorary doctorate (Doctor in Engineering Honoris Causa) from the Technical University of Dortmund. Ignacio E. Grossmann has been named one of the 100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era on the occassion of AIChE's Centennial Celebration. Ignacio Grossmann wins the 2011 Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering Award from AIChE Nick Sahinidis Nick Sahinidis becomes Editor-in-Chief of Optimization and Engineering, 2018 Nick Sahinidis elected AIChE fellow 2017 Nick Sahinidis wins 2016 National Award and Gold Medal by HELORS Nick Sahinidis wins 2015 Constantin Carathéodory Prize Nick Sahinidis was elected 2014 Fellow of INFORMS Nick Sahinidis was named recipient of the 2010 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the CAST Division of AIChE Erik Ydstie Erik Ydstie was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Kun Li Award for Excellence in Education Erik Ydstie was named recipient of the 2007 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award. Biegler, Grossmann, Westerberg Larry Biegler, Ignacio Grossmann and Art Westerberg have been selected recipients of the 2009 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education. Biegler, Grossmann The article "An Algorithmic Framework for Convex Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programs" by Bonami,P., Biegler,L.T., Conn,A.R. Cornjuelos,G., Grossmann,I.E. Laird,C.D., Lee,J., Lodi,A., Margot,F., Sawaya, N., Waechter, A., published in the journal Discrete Optimization, Vol. 5, 186-204, 2008, has been named the Discrete Optimization Top Cited Article for the period 2005-2010.