Yang Zhang, chemical engineering doctoral student, has received a scholarship from the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society to research multivariate statistical process control methods to develop and implement an online monitoring software package for industrial chemical and biological batch processes.  Zhang studies under Dr. Thomas Edgar, chemical engineering professor, who holds the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering.  Zhang’s research is supported from a grant by Emerson Process Management of Austin.