McGraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series It has been over 17 years since the second edition of this book was published. The second edition, which was written by Dr. Donald R. Coughanowr in 1991, contained many changes and new topics to bring the book up to date at the time of publication. The third edition has been a number of years in the making. I would like to thank Dr. Coughanowr for the opportunity to work on this project and help update this excellent work, which he first published in 1965 with Dr. Lowell B. Koppel. As an undergraduate, I learned process control from the first edition of this text over 30 years ago. It was an excellent book then, and it still is. I’ve used a number of other books over the years as a student and as a professor, but I kept coming back to this one. I felt that it was the best book to learn from. Is it an all-encompassing, totally comprehensive process dynamics and control book? No, but it is not intended to be. It is a clearly written book that is geared toward students in a first process dynamics and control course. Many control books on the market contain more material than one could ever hope to cover in a standard undergraduate semester-long class. They can be overwhelming and difficult to learn from. I have always felt that one of the strengths of this book, from both the student’s and professor’s point of view, was the relatively short, easy-to-read chapters that can be covered in one to two lectures. An additional strength of this text has been its unique ability to be a teaching and learning text. I hope that in this current revision, I have been able to retain that style and flavor, while introducing some new material and examples to update the text.