ISA | Greg McMillan

Gregory K. McMillan is a retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc. During his 33 year career with Monsanto Company and its spin off Solutia Inc, he specialized in improving loop performance, controller tuning, valve dynamics, opportunity assessments, dynamic simulation, fermentor control, pH control, and reactor control. Greg is the author of more than 50 articles and papers and 18 funny and serious books. Greg’s most recent humorous books are The Funnier Side of Retirement for Engineers and People of the Technical Persuasion and The Life and Times of an Automation Professional. His latest technical book is New Directions in Bioprocess Modeling and Control. He is also author of the ISA best sellers for 2001 and 2002 titled Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide and Advanced Control Unleashed. He has contributed to several handbooks, is the editor of the Process/Industrial Instrumentation and Controls handbook, and writes a monthly “Control Talk” column for Control Magazine.

As an affiliate Professor of Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri from 2001 to 2003 he developed a virtual plant and course on modeling and control as practiced in the process industry for chemical engineers using the book Advanced Control Unleashed.

Greg is an ISA Fellow and received the ISA “Kermit Fischer Environmental” Award for pH control in 1991, the Control Magazine “Engineer of the Year” Award for the Process Industry in 1994, and was one of the first inductees into the Control Magazine “Process Automation Hall of Fame” in 2001. Greg was most recently honored as one of Intech’s 50 most influential innovators for advancing automation and control technologies. He received a B.S. from Kansas University in 1969 in Engineering Physics and a M.S. from University of Missouri – Rolla in 1976 in Electrical Engineering (Control Theory). Greg contracts as a consultant through CDI Process and Industrial for Emerson Process Management in Austin, Texas.