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Daniel E. Rivera
became part of the faculty in the Department of Chemical and
Materials Engineering at Arizona State University in the fall
of 1990. Prior to joining ASU he was an Associate Research
Engineer in the Control Systems Section of Shell Development
Company. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and holds B.S.
and M.S. degrees from the University of Rochester and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He has been a visiting
researcher with the Division of Automatic Control at Linköping
University, Sweden, Honeywell Technology Center, and the University "St.
Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje, Macedonia. His research
interests are focused on life cycle and hierarchical issues
in process control, which include the topics of system identification,
robust process control, distributed control implementation,
and the interaction between process design and control. Recently,
Dr. Rivera and his students have been investigating control-oriented
approaches to inventory management in supply chains and related
enterprise systems issues. Dr. Rivera was chosen as 1994-1995
Outstanding Undergraduate Educator by the ASU student chapter
of AIChE, and was a recipient of 1997-1998 Teaching Excellence
Award given out by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
at ASU.
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