Process Systems Enterprise Inc. (PSE), the Advanced Process ModelingTM company, today announced the signing of Rutgers as the newest major US university to join the Partnership for Advanced Process Modeling.
PSE, a technology spin-out of Imperial College London, England, will contribute its leading gPROMS® platform software, model libraries and training services to the partnership with the Rutgers University Chemical Engineering Department. The university will drive adoption of advanced process modeling technology to its graduate and undergraduate chemical engineering students, teaching staff, and selected industrial participants.
Advanced Process Modeling enables companies "´ through deeper understanding of their processes "´ to reduce uncertainty and make better, faster and safer design and operating decisions. This brings faster innovation, improved process and product designs, enhanced operations, reduced risk and better-integrated R&D and experimentation.
gPROMS is the world´s leading Advanced Process Modeling platform, and gPROMS family products are applied in all sectors of the process industries, in particular for complex operations such as reaction, separation, crystallization, polymerization and fuel cell processes.
"Rutgers is excited to be a key US partner in this initiative", said, Professor Mauricio Futran, Professor and Chair, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. "Today, engineering students need exposure to state-of-the-art, 21st century tools and technologies. The Partnership for Advanced Process Modeling will provide us with the same tools as used in industry, as well as the expertise to help our students grow to meet the requirements of their future employers."
"We are delighted to add Rutgers to a partnership that already includes Carnegie Mellon and Purdue universities," said Dale Curtis, President of Process Systems Enterprise, Inc. "This builds on our already close links with Rutgers through our membership of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS)". PSE supplies gPROMS ModelBuilder and gSOLIDS software to C-SOPS to help achieve its aims of developing science and engineering methods for designing, scaling, optimizing and controlling manufacturing processes for the life sciences industries.
