Theodore Joseph Williams

Background

Williams, Theodore Joseph was born on September 2, 1923 in Black Lick, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Theodore Finley and Mary Ellen (Shields) Williams.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1949; M.S.Ch.E., Pennsylvania State University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1955; Master of Science in Elec. Engineering, Ohio State University, 1956.

Career

Research fellow, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1947-1951; assistant professor, Air Force Institute Technology, 1953-1956; technologist, Monsanto Company, 1956-1957; senior engineering supervisor, Monsanto Company, 1957-1965; professor engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1965-1994; professor emeritus, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, since 1995; director control and information systems laboratory, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1965-1966; director, Purdue Laboratory Applied Industrial Control, 1966-1994; director emeritus, Purdue Laboratory Applied Industrial Control, since 1995; consultant, since 1964. Visiting professor Washington University, St. Louis, 1962-1965.

Works

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  • The Use of Digital Computers in Process Control (An Independent learning module from the Instrument Society of America)

    (Book by Williams, Theodore J.)

  • Interfaces with the process control computer;: The operator, engineer, and management; proceedings of the symposium held August 3-6, 1971, Lafayette, Indiana
  • The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture
  • Systems Engineering for the Process Industries

Membership

Served to 1st lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. To captain United States Air Force, 1951-1956. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Instrument Society of America (honorary member, president 1968-1969, Albert F. Sperry gold medal 1990, Lifetime Achievement award 1995), American Institute Chemists, Institute Measurement and Control (London, Senior Harold Hartley silver medal 1975), Industrial Computing Society.

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), International Federation for Information Processing (Silver Core award 1978), Society for Computer Simulation (honorary), American Chemical Society, American Automatic Control Council (president 1965-1967), American Federation Information Processing Societies (president 1976-1978), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Lambda Upsilon.

Connections

Married Isabel Annette McAnulty, July 18, 1946. Children: Theodore Joseph, Mary Margaret, Charles Augustus, Elizabeth Annual.