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The Internet is loaded with many good (and some not-so-good) resources for the undergraduate engineering student.  This page provides a few good sites that are consistent with the technical level of typical undergraduate courses and are complementary to the material on this site.  All sources are free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Process Control technology and methods

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Author

Summary

Globe
University of Michigan

Book prepared by students as part of their undergraduate course.

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John Hendengren

Brigham Young Univerity
This site has numerous screen casts with lessons in Process Control.  Also, a link is given for a textbook (PDF) by D. Cooper.
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José Luis Guzmán,
Karl J. Åström,
Sebastián Dormido,
Tore Hägglund, Yves Piguet

"Interactive Simulators"

The "PID Basics" simulator is an easy-to-use simulator that gives nice visual display and key calculated metrics of performance.  Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.


Applied Process Control

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Author

Summary

 

Globe

Spiraxsarco

UK Company

“Steam Engineering Tutorials”

 

Excellent presentation of instrumentation and control methods that are useful for many applications beyond steam generation

 

 

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Mr. Jacques Smuts

Opticontrols

USA

“Reflections of a Process Control Practitioner”

Many interesting and useful case studies.  These will be valuable to the reader who has already learned the basics of control technology and needs to hear about realistic challenges and solutions.

Instrumentation

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Author

Summary

 

Globe

Mr. Tony Kuphalt

Bellingham Technical college

Washington, USA

“Lessons in Industrial Instrumentation”

 

Encyclopedic coverage of instrumentation, including over 3000 pages; download is 50 MB.  Easy to use by finding topic in the Table of Contents and using hyperlinks.

 

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Mr. Jim Russell

Mr. Ian Verhappen

“IceWeb”

 

A very comprehensive portal.  Not the easiest to use, but it provides a wide coverage of important topics.