Education  
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1990
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985
B.S., Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985

Research and work experience Lecturer, University of Dayton Research interests Distillation column design Global optimization methods for bilevel programming Heat exchanger network synthesis Process engineering Optimization Optimzation-based design methods Reactive and azeotropic distillation Stability analysis for chemical processes

Selected publications
Ciric, A.R., Mumtaz, H.S., Corbet, G., Reagan, M., Seader, W., Fabiano, L. and Widagdo, S., "Multiple Steady States in Azeotropic Distillation with an Internal Decanter," Computers and Chemical Engineering, in print.

Sahin, K. and Ciric, A.R., "A Dual Temperature Simulated Annealing Approach for Solving Bi-level Programming Problems," Computers and Chemical Engineering, 23, pp. 11-25, 1998.

Gumus, Z. and Ciric, A.R., "Reactive Distillation Column Design with Vapor Liquid Liquid Equilibria," Computers and Chemical Engineering, 21, pp. S983-S988, 1997.

Memberships
American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Contact
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Dayton
300 College Park Drive
Dayton, OH 45469-0246

Phone: 937-229-2627
Fax: 937-229-3433
E-mail: amy.ciric@notes.udayton.edu