Modern Distributed Control Systems: A comprehensive coverage of DCS technologies and standards (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535103855)

Dr. Moustafa Elshafei is a Professor of Control and Instrumentation Systems Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He received his Ph.D. (with Dean List) from McGill University, Canada, in Electrical Engineering in 1982. Since then, he has accumulated over 34 years of both academic and industrial experience. He is a sole inventor/coinventor of over 20 US and international patents. He has published 250 publications in international journals, conferences, and technical reports, in addition to three books and several book chapters. He initiated/participated in may funded projects by Saudi ARAMCO, SABIC, KACST, NSTIP, YOKOGAWA, and KFUPM. Dr. Elshafei taught DCS systems at KFUPM at the graduate level, as well as senior undergraduate level during the last 8 years. He establishing a DCS teaching and training Lab. The lab includes Yokogawa Stardom PAC and CENTUM VP training simulator, Honeywell Experion 400 with 10 workstations and two servers, ABB AC800M with 10 workstations, and Siemens SIMATIC PCS7 training system for university education. He also helped in establishing a research lab for Networked Computer Control. Dr. Elshafei research interest includes intelligent instrumentation, and process modeling, control, and optimization. Dr. Elshafei is a member of IEEE, SPE, and ISA.