Eric Fraga's Webpage
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Professor of Process Systems Engineering |
Address: Professor Eric S Fraga Department of Chemical Engineering University College London Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE United Kingdom |
Professor Eric S Fraga received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 1988. After several years working in departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Chemical Engineering at the Universities of Dundee, British Columbia, and Edinburgh, Professor Fraga joined the department in 1996 as an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and is currently Professor of Process Systems Engineering. In 2012, he was seconded to UCL's Australian campus where he held the post of Academic Director and the Santos Chair of Energy and Resources.
His work is primarily in computer aided process engineering, specializing
in
automated
process synthesis and the use of computer tools for collaborative
design. He is also particularly interested in the use of visualization and
knowledge discovery methods for generation of insight in process design.
Professor Fraga is a member of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, a joint centre between UCL and Imperial College, and the Centre for CO2 Technology.
Research Interests
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Professor Fraga's interests lie at the interfaces between engineering,
mathematics and computer science. He is specifically interested in the
design of novel computer algorithms and mathematical techniques and
their application to problems in process engineering. In the past, his
research has concentrated on the development of methods for automated
process design, or process synthesis, with the development of tools for
the design of profitable, safe, environmentally benign chemical
plants. These tools, including most prominently the Jacaranda system, use
a variety of optimization methods and specially targeted visualization
and interaction procedures to provide a system which is both powerful and
easy to use. Further details are available from Professor Fraga's home pages.
Teaching Interests
Professor Fraga's teaching is primarily in the first two years of the undergraduate programme and includes the following modules (note that each link is restricted to access only by students currently registered on the module):
- CENG 1004 Introduction to Chemical Engineering
- CENG 2003 Process Engineering
- CENG 2005 Computer Aided Process Engineering
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