Controls engineering encompasses a broad range of industries: power, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals,
manufacturing and chemical plants. Although this third edition has been expanded to further include the
many different applications used by all of the above, the book will focus on petrochemical applications.
The Professional Engineer – Control Systems Engineer (CSE) examination tends to be concentrated
toward the application of chemical and pharmaceutical plant design applications of code and control
systems. I have tried to introduce the new upcoming engineer to the depth of knowledge they will need to
acquire in order to tackle very large projects that may present themselves in the future of their career.
I have tried to present a firsthand view of what a large plant looks like and how to break it down into small
parts that are easily engineered and designed, while combining these many small parts into a large and
complex working system that will run safe and smoothly.