Overview

Intelligent Process Control from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals enables professionals from several engineering backgrounds to gain advanced knowledge and skills in process data collection and manipulation to extract intelligent information necessary for optimal decision making, including the use of digital twins in enhancing operation and control.

Quick Facts:

The program provides students with in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge in the development of intelligent process control – an interdisciplinary field that involves numerical disciplines in engineering, computing, and mathematics.
The program covers intelligent process control fundamentals (network architecture, smart sensors, control structures, control loops, etc.), simulation of chemical processes (chemical plant modeling, sparse matrices, tearing, simulator construction, etc.), instrumentation and control networks (hierarchy, SCADA, DCS, industrial interfaces, communication protocol, CAN bus, ZigBee networks, etc.), intelligent decision support systems (decision theory, modeling, case-based reasoning, decision trees, knowledge representation, etc.), and optimal process control design (e.g. dynamic programming, reachability, trajectory optimization).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Simulation of Chemical Processes
Optimal and Learning-based Process Control Design
Soft Computing for Identification
Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems
Applied AI in Process Control

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-06-30 00:00:00

More details

Deadlines: 30 June MS (Thesis-Based) and 11 July MS Programs (Project-Based).

Language

English

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68

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Credits

30 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Disciplines

Data Science & Big Data View 3 other Masters in Data Science & Big Data in Saudi Arabia

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.5

English requirements

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68

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Other requirements

General requirements

A four-year Bachelor’s (B.S.) Degree in engineering or science from a recognized institution with a major in the proposed field or evidence of suitable background for entering the proposed field.
A Grade-Point Average (GPA) of 3.00 or higher on a scale of 4.00 or equivalent (For Scholarship Applicants ) or 2.50 or higher on a scale of 4.00 or equivalent (For Non-Scholarship Applicants).
Two letters of recommendation, preferably from the faculty who taught the applicant university-level courses. [to be submitted through the online recommendation system]
Satisfactorily meeting any additional departmental or university admission requirements.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

2000 USD / year

≈ 2000 USD / year

Living costs

Dhahran

Saudi Arabia

2665 - 3000 SAR / month

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Funding

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