A Comparison Between the Educational Level of “Process Control” in Iran and the Developed Countries: Proposing a Practical Roadmap to Fill the Existing Gaps.

Abstract

The perfect control of the process variables has been always a critical issue in most process industries and among the engineers. In this article different aspects of “Process Control” education in Iranian universities has been studied and analyzed to recognize the current situation and to evaluate the educational quality of this field. Based on the advanced educational mechanisms, which are being used in the developed countries, a practical roadmap has been proposed. This will improve the “Process Control Educational Level” in Iran’s academies in shortest period of time. It will enhance the level of several impressive factors like the laboratory experiments, simulation environment and preparation of graduation for involvement into sensitive process industries and enhancement of industries acceptance level or their expertise. By implementing the proposed strategy, vital national industries such as oil, gas and petrochemical complexes as well as most power plants can be easily equipped by knowledgeable experts in a few years. Consequently, several valuable targets such as increasing the plant efficiency, improving the quality of the final products, reducing the environmental pollutants and also reducing the energy consumption can be successfully pursued.

Keywords

• chemical engineering control engineering educational syllabus industrial process control laboratory equipment oil and gas industries