A practical approach to the essentials of product design, related statistical techniques and optimization, patents, green chemistry and gives real life case studies.
Biografie (Ali Elkamel)
Ali Elkamel is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He holds a B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics from Colorado School of Mines, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. Prof. Elkamel's specific research interests are in computer-aided modeling, optimization, and simulation with applications to the petroleum and petrochemical industry. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was at Purdue University, P&G, Italy, Kuwait University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught a number of short courses to industry, including optimization and cost awareness, quantitative decision making, computer-aided problem solving, refinery economics and planning, and practical process engineering. He has contributed more than 200 publications in refereed journals and international conference proceedings and serves on the editorial board of several journals.
