Gavin has 20 years of broad experience of process and product design and has 65 US patents. He is co-author of "Chemical Engineering Design?, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches the senior design classes.

Gavin has a B.A. and [...]. in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and is a Fellow of the AIChE.

Part I: Process Design 1. Introduction to Design 2. Process Flowsheet Development 3. Utilities and Energy Efficient Design 4. Process Simulation 5. Instrumentation and Process Control 6. Materials of Construction 7. Capital Cost Estimating 8. Estimating Revenues and Production Costs 9. Economic Evaluation of Projects 10. Safety and Loss Prevention 11. General Site Considerations 12. Optimization in Design

Part II: Plant Design 13. Equipment Selection, Specification and Design 14. Design of Pressure Vessels 15. Design of Reactors and Mixers 16. Separation of Fluids 17. Separation Columns (Distillation, Absorption and Extraction) 18. Specification and Design of Solids-Handling Equipment 19. Heat Transfer Equipment 20. Transport and Storage of Fluids