Art Westerberg
Encyclopedia
Art Westerberg is an emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. He has been a major contributor to the field of numerical methods for solving chemical engineering
problems, and has been involved since the 1980s with a mathematical modelling package named ASCEND
.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
. He has been a major contributor to the field of numerical methods for solving chemical engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
problems, and has been involved since the 1980s with a mathematical modelling package named ASCEND
ASCEND
ASCEND is a free, open source, mathematical modelling system developed at Carnegie Mellon University since the late 1978. ASCEND is an acronym which stands for Advanced System for Computations in ENgineering Design. Its main uses have been in the field of chemical process modelling although its...
.
See also
- http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/aw0a.htm