Carlos Avila

Email: carlos-avila@utulsa.edu
Phone: (918)-631-2422

B.S. in Chemical Engineering. (Nov., 1999). Universidad de Los Andes. Merida, Venezuela. B.S. Degree thesis: Modeling the Behavior of a Heat Exchanger "BEU" by Means of Neural Networks and Mass & Energy Balances.

Paper presented at the 4th Latin American Congress of Chemical Engineering Students. Mérida, Venezuela; (June, 1998). "DESFRAC Graphic program for the study of the inherent methods to the fractional distillation (Ponchón-Savarit and McCabe Thiele)".

Work Experience: Teaching assistant for Digital Programming 10. 4th Semester Course in Chemical Engineering. Including: Computing Systems Introduction, Handling of the MS-DOS operating system, Algorithms and Structured Programming, Programming and Coding in Turbo Basic. Also, Industrial internships. 1997 MARAVEN CORP., Refinement Division, Cardón. "Evaluation of the Vacuum System of PB-1 compressor in the Catalytic Cracking Unit." And 1998. PDVSA, CORP., Manufacture and Marketing. Refinement Center Paraguaná. Cardón. "Improvements to the low pressure vapor and condensate recovery system, and evaluation of the inter-stage coolers of the AC-44/45/46 compressors". Industrial Services Area.

Currently: studying M.S. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa / research assistant in the Control in Compact Separators Area, TUSTP. SPE Member.

Areas of Interest: Process Control, Neural Networks and new computing technologies.