Dr. David Himmelblau, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, received the CACHE award from the Chemical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
The award, funded by the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education Corp., recognizes his significant contributions to the development of computer aids for chemical engineering education.
Himmelblau holds the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professorship Emeritus in Chemical Engineering. He retired in 1999 after having served on faculty in the Chemical Engineering Department for 42 years.
His recent research has focused on validating sensors, and the use of artificial neural networks for fault diagnosis and data rectification. Himmelblau developed a new technique for evaluating sensors that involves parsing signals from a sensor based on their signal frequency. This technique unmasks abnormal signaling patterns that may degrade a sensor’s capabilities. For the data rectification research, he demonstrated that more accurate values for signals can be obtained by taking into account random noise and processible process faults.
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