The McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC) was established in 1988 to promote and advance process automation and related process systems engineering technologies through academe-industry interactions. Over the years, company membership grew and also diversified, with current member companies spanning the petroleum, chemical, steel, food and control technology vendor industries. The research in the consortium is directed by five faculty members from the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University, with the remaining research complement comprising of graduate students, research engineers, post-doctoral fellows at various points in time, and undergraduate research students.
MACC continues to thrive after more than 30 years, and has provided significant benefits to both McMaster University and member companies. Numerous graduate students with Ph.D. and Master’s degrees who graduated from here have high technical skills that are developed through their course work at McMaster University combined with industrially relevant research. They are highly sought-after and are valuable assets to the process industries and their technology suppliers.
