... Glandt, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Michael T. Klein, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University Thomas E Edgar, Professor of Chemical Engineering, ... Chemical Engineers Douglas: Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes Edgar, Himmelblau, and Lasdon: Optimization of Chemical Processes Gates, Katzer, and Schuit: Chemistry of Catalytic Processes ... optimization algorithms and software, and applications of optimization and other OWMS methodologies. He is a coauthor of the Microsoft ExceI Solver, and his optimization software...