Samuel Owusu Wins ISA Scholarship

ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society announced that OSU ChE graduate student Samuel O. Owusu will be a recipient of a 2004 ISA Educational Foundation Scholarship. The $2,500 will be awarded by the ISA Chemical & Petroleum Division Scholarship Endowment. Samuel is a PhD candidate in the School, whose research involves investigating and analyzing techniques for autonomous computer monitoring of process controllers. Controllers are devices that keep chemical processes operating at desired conditions - much like a cruise controller maintains a car at the desired speed. If the computer can help operators detect process controllers that are having problems, then operators can fix things earlier, which will contribute to safety and quality in manufacturing.

 Lowell E. McCaw, ISA President, writes, "ISA's mission is to maximize the effectiveness of practitioners and organizations worldwide to advance the science and technology of instrumentation, systems, and automation for the benefit of industry and humanity.  The Society is proud to support your educational efforts in an area relating to this mission.  You were awarded this scholarship because you show outstanding potential for contributions to the field."

 We think so, too.

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 Samuel earned his Master of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina A&T University, and his BS in ChE at University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Prior to starting graduate studies, he worked 3 years in the refining industry in his home country of Ghana.  His wife Millicent is a graduate student in Chemistry. They have one child, Kimberley, age 2.