Optimization modeling, conceptual design, and integrated process operations

Schedule

To learn more about the modules, check out the detailed course schedule.

Instructors

Larry Biegler, Chrysanthos Gounaris, Ignacio Grossmann, John Kitchin, Carl Laird, Nikolaos Sahinidis, Jeffrey Siirola, Ana Torres

The Center for Advanced Process Decision-making at Carnegie Mellon University would like to announce its 2026 Short Course. This course is taught online by Professors Biegler, Gounaris, Grossmann, Kitchin, Laird, Sahinidis, Siirola, and Torres. The course will take place from Friday, May 8, through Thursday, May 21, 2026. The course is organized into ten modules that can be taken altogether or in subsets. Registration will open in spring 2026.

The topics include conceptual design, nonlinear, discrete, and global optimization, integrated process planning, scheduling, and control. The course stresses the application of optimization models and methods to practical process problems, as well as recently developed process synthesis concepts.

Geared to the practitioner, this course provides practical information and exposure to powerful and sophisticated tools for process synthesis, machine learning, planning, scheduling, and dynamics and control, including treatment of uncertainty. In addition, the course emphasizes systematic solution approaches and provides the necessary background to understand the tools and apply them correctly and efficiently to your process problem. Specific computer methods will include modeling tools, nonlinear and mixed integer programming codes.

Course participants will address these topics through lectures, and for your convenience, the 2026 Short Course will be held remotely. Zoom links will be provided to registrants.

Please contact Sam Wessel at sseroka@andrew.cmu.edu with any questions. We look forward to your participation!

I liked the combination of theoretical and practical applications of the optimization methods. The rationale behind each technique was also well explained.

Past course participant

Pricing

 

Fee

25% discount for CAPD sponsors

Any 1 module

$700

$525

Any 2 modules

$1350

$1013

Any 3 modules

$1950

$1463

Any 4 modules

$2500

$1875

Any 5 modules

$3000

$2250

Any 6 modules

$3450

$2588

Any 7 modules

$3850

$2888

Any 8 modules

$4200

$3150

Any 9 modules

$4500

$3375

All 10 modules

$4750

$3563

Discounts

Academic discount: 50%

Group discount (in addition to any other discount): Register 10 or more attendees from one institution and receive a 50% discount

Intended audience

You should attend if:

  • you are a process engineer interested in obtaining improved solutions for your design, planning, scheduling, and control problems.
  • you are an engineer interested in learning how to formulate models for process design and synthesis, and for process and enterprise-wide optimization, and how to solve them with advanced computer tools.
  • you are a manager interested in understanding and introducing these tools in your working environment.
  • you are a researcher interested in quickly testing new process ideas and concepts through the use of optimization-based tools.

I got a lot out of the course–excellent job! It was organized very nicely.

Past course participant

Learn more

View the course schedule.

For more information, please contact Sam Wessel at sseroka@andrew.cmu.edu.