Donald J. Chmielewski

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs

Office: Room 127 Perlstein Hall
Phone: 312.567.3537
Fax: 312.567.8874
Email: chmielewski@iit.edu
Web: Personal Webpage

Expertise

Advanced Process Control
Fuel Cell System Design and Control

Education

B.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering, 1991)
M.S. from University of California, Los Angeles (Electrical Engineering, 1993)
Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (Chemical Engingeering, 2000)

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

2003 - Excellence in Teaching Award, ChEE Department, IIT
2003 - Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award, II
2000 - Outstanding PhD in Chemical Engineering, UCLA

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

Chmielewski, D. J. and T. Agrawal, “On the Scheduling of Leak Detection Personnel,” Comp. Chem. Eng. , 28(3), pp 417-424, (2004).

Al-Qattan, A., D. J. Chmielewski, S. Al-Hallaj and J. Selman, “A Novel Design for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stacks,” Chem. Eng. Sci., 59, pp 131-137, (2004).

Chmielewski, D. J. and A. M. Manthanwar, “On the Tuning of Predictive Controllers: Inverse Optimality and the Minimum Variance Covariance Constrained Control Problem,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. , 43, pp 7807-7814, (2004).

Al-Qattan, A., and D. J. Chmielewski, “Distributed Feed Design for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Internal Reforming,” J. of the Electrochem. Soc., 151(11), pp A1891-A1898, (2004).

Chmielewski, D. J. and V. Manousiouthakis, “On Constrained Infinite-time Linear Quadratic Optimal Control with Stochastic Disturbances,” J. Proc. Cont., 15(4), pp 383-391, (2005)

Ahluwalia, R. K., Q. Zhang, D. J. Chmielewski, K. C. Lauzze, and M. A. Inbody, “Efficiency Based Design of a Preferential Oxidation Reactor for On-Board Fuel Processing Applications,” Catalysis Today, 99(3-4), pp 271-283, (2005).

Peng, J. K., A. Manthanwar and D. J. Chmielewski, “On the Tuning of Predictive Controllers: The Minimally Backed-off Operating Point Selection Problem,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44, pp 7814-7822, (2005).

Chmielewski, D.J. and J.K. Peng, “Covariance Based Hardware Selection-Part I: Globally Optimal Actuator Selection,” IEEE Trans. Cont. Sys. Tech., 14(2), pp 355-361, (2006).

Peng, J.K., and D.J. Chmielewski, “Covariance Based Hardware Selection-Part II: Equivalence Results for the Sensor, Actuator and Simultaneous Selection Problems,” IEEE Trans. Cont. Sys. Tech., 14(2), pp 362-368, (2006).

Lauzze, K.C., and D.J. Chmielewski, “Power Control of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. , 45, pp 4661-4670 (2006).

Papadias, D., S.H.D. Lee and D.J. Chmielewski, “Autothermal Reforming of Gasoline for Fuel Cell Applications: A Transient Reactor Model,” Ind. Eng Chem. Res., in press (2006).