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Process Control: CHE 3P4

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Course outline Course videos from 2014 Software for integrating ODEs Copyright and other legal stuff Comments, questions, feedback? Don't wait for official course evaluations. Announcements (previous ones) or Follow @3p4control 04 April: Tutorials are all completed, and all tutorial grades are posted now on Avenue. Tutorials, as you experienced over the past weeks, were a chance for you to really get to the bottom of the material. Simple attendance at the tutorial was not the purpose, complete understanding is. Tutorial PDFs are posted on the website for you to practice and review your understanding of the crucial concepts. 07 Apr: all previous questions from the quizzes on last Friday are now permanently available for you to practice at http://inpress.mcmaster.ca (on campus access only). Click on "Go to all previous test(s) and quizz(es)" after signing in and chosing the Process Control course. 07 Apr: Mudassir has volunteered to run a course review and question/answer session, this Thursday, 10 April, at 14:00, in JHE-144.

Overview of Process Control Process Control objectives Dynamic models, solving them and interpreting them The PID controller Determining model parameters from experiments Intermediate topics: Stability & Digital control Cascade and feedforward control Multiloop control Wrap up and review Suggested course readings

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Assignments Assignment 1 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 2 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 3 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 4 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 5 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 6 - 2014, with solutions Assignment 7 - 2014 How to submit an assignment electronically. Tutorials Number Monday Friday 1 To be posted in April (I'll explain why later) 2 13 Jan 17 Jan 3 20 Jan 24 Jan 4 27 Jan 31 Jan 5 3 Feb Collaborative midterm, 7 Feb 6 Collaborative midterm, 10 Feb No tutorial 7 No tutorial 28 Feb 8 3 Mar 7 Mar 9 10 Mar 14 Mar 10 17 Mar 21 Mar 11 24 Mar 28 Mar 12 31 Mar 04 Apr Tests, exams and project Written midterm 1 Written midterm 2 Final exam Practice questions for tests and exams