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ISA 2018 author awards
Winners are recognized for their editorial contributions to a wide range of ISA publications, including ISA books, InTech, and ISA Transactions. The awards and award recipients are:
This year's Raymond D. Molloy Award recipient is William L. Mostia, Jr., for his book, Troubleshooting: A Technician's Guide, Second Edition, which outsold all other ISA books published in 2017. Mostia has more than 45 years of experience in the process industries, primarily at petrochemical companies. Selected as an ISA Fellow in 2013, he has published more than 100 articles and papers on instrumentation subjects.
The Keith Otto Award was presented to Peter Fuhr, PhD, and Sterling Rooke, PhD, for their article, "Is it time for a change in cybersecurity?"(InTech, November/December 2017 issue). Fuhr has been involved in industrial wireless, sensors, and secure systems as a NASA space optical physicist, professor, entrepreneur, and a U.S. National Laboratory researcher. Sterling is a cyber operations officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, supporting USCYBERCOM and Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx). He is also director of ISA's Communications Division.
The recipient of this year's Nels Tyring Award is Dean Ford, CAP, for his article, "We have a demand problem with the automation profession" (InTech, September/October 2017). Ford, an active senior member of ISA, participates in many ISA standards committees and serves on the Automation Federation's Government Relations and Workforce Development committees.
The recipients of the ISA Transactions Best Paper Award are Julian Barreiro-Gomez, PhD, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, PhD, and Nicanor Quijano, PhD, for their paper, "Dynamical tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application" (ISA Transactions, Vol. 69, pages 175-186, July 2017). Barreiro-Gomez is a post-doctoral associate in the Learning and Game Theory Laboratory at the New York University in Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), U.A.E. Ocampo-Martinez is associate professor of automatic control and model predictive control at the Technical University of Catalonia. Quijano is a full professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
In memoriam
Former ISA president David Nolan Bishop, passed away 19 September 2018 at the age of 78. Bishop, who had a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University, retired from Chevron after 35 years as an electrical engineer. He was a member of ISA from 1971–2018 and served as president in 1991–1992. In addition, he was named Mississippi State Engineering Alumnus of the year in 1990 and served on the MSU Engineering Advisory Board. During his professional career, he logged 12,000 student hours teaching electrical installations in hazardous locations. Bishop was a problem solver who gave his all to any project he encountered. As one of the many young professionals he mentored said, “He was a great inspiration and role model to me and many, many others.”
In memoriam
Paul Whitfield Murrill, chemical engineer and former chancellor of Louisiana State University, died 2 April 2018. Receiving a Naval ROTC scholarship, Murrill earned a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Mississippi. After a time in the Navy and working as a chemical engineer at Columbia-Southern, he returned to academic life. Murrill completed his master’s degree and PhD at Louisiana State and began working as a professor in 1963, later moving into leadership positions. Murrill wrote and edited many books, including seminal texts on process theory still in use today. He also worked with Cecil L. Smith on early research in digital system tuning methods. In 2003, ISA named him one of the 50 most influential people in history in the fields of automation, instrumentation, and control technologies.
New CAPs and CCSTs
Qualifying for and passing one of ISA’s certification exams is a noteworthy accomplishment. The exams are rigorous and require a solid command of various disciplines in automation and control. Below is a list of individuals who have recently passed either our Certified Automation Professional (CAP) or one of the three levels of our Certified Control System Technician (CCST) exam. Congratulations to our new certification holders! For more information about the ISA CAP and CCST certification programs, please visit www.isa.org/training-and-certifications/isa-certification.
Certified Control System Technicians
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Name |
Company |
Location |
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Level 1 |
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Eric L. Miller |
None |
U.S. |
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Bromekas L. Gibson |
Dominion Energy |
U.S. |
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Thomas B. Rabel |
None |
U.S. |
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Jeremy M. McGough |
None |
U.S. |
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Gary O. Christian |
None |
U.S. |
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Sergio Guevara Oserio |
Flowserve |
Mexico |
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Kendall S. Kildow |
None |
U.S. |
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Donald W. Jenkins |
None |
U.S. |
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Jeffrey L. Keaton |
None |
U.S. |
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Bret T. Maloy |
None |
U.S. |
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Brent R. Mattfeld |
None |
U.S. |
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Brand M. Shonk |
None |
U.S. |
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John M. Kruse |
Miller Coors |
U.S. |
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April A. Brower |
Miller Coors |
U.S. |
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Keith A. Randell |
None |
U.S. |
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Troy D. Carter |
None |
U.S. |
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John B. Langer |
None |
U.S. |
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Bruce B. Alexander |
None |
U.S. |
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Norman L. Wagoner |
None |
U.S. |
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Anthony J. Freyta |
None |
U.S. |
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Adam P. Loveless |
MillerCoors |
U.S. |
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Jason L. Palmer |
None |
U.S. |
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Shannon T. Young |
Alyeska Pipeline |
U.S. |
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Charles A. Rickman |
None |
U.S. |
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Thomas L. Dechant |
Alyeska Pipeline |
U.S. |
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Walter C. Clymer |
None |
U.S. |
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Level 2 |
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Chad M. Schaner |
Flint Hills Resources |
U.S. |
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Pedro Antonio Herrera |
None |
U.S. |
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Luke J. Landaiche |
None |
U.S. |
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Jeremy J. Rican |
None |
U.S. |
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Michael E. Cervi |
None |
U.S. |
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Kyle J. Turner |
None |
U.S. |
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Antonio S. Johnson |
None |
U.S. |
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Rasel Ahmed |
None |
U.S. |
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David B. Kenner |
None |
U.S. |
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Nathaniel Paul Green |
None |
U.S. |
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Tugger C. Raymond |
None |
U.S. |
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Justin R. Minchew |
None |
U.S. |
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Richard T. Henman |
None |
U.S. |
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Von R. Watson |
None |
U.S. |
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Cody B. Bond |
None |
U.S. |
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Level 3 |
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Benjamin A. Penick |
BP |
U.S. |
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Charles D. Neel |
None |
U.S. |
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Certified Automation Professionals |
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Name |
Company |
Location |
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Victor Ezeano |
None |
Saudi Arabia |
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Sunilkuma Bharatkumar Vora |
McDermott Middle East |
U.A.E. |
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Douglas R. LeVasseur |
None |
U.S. |
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Keith D. Wilson |
None |
U.S. |
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Junaid Arshad |
Intech Process Automation |
Pakistan |
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Bilal Munawar |
SMEC Oil & Gas Pvt Ltd. |
Pakistan |
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Daniel R. Sturgeon |
Syngenta |
U.S. |
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Adekunle Akani |
None |
U.S. |
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Esakki Raj Mariappan |
None |
India |
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John Flynn |
ESB International |
Ireland |
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Virgil E. Sutton |
None |
U.S. |
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Shabir Khan |
None |
Pakistan |
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