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Jeffrey McCutcheon

Jeffrey McCutcheon is the General Electric Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University. For nearly 20 years, he has pioneered work in membrane based separations, notably in the areas of osmotic processes and membrane formation. He has raised over $12M to support research in the areas of forward osmosis, membrane distillation, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, pervaporation,...Read more

Richard Willson

Richard Willson is Moores Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston.  He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, and did his Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) and postdoc (Biology) at MIT....Read more

Dr. Edmund G. Seebauer

Edmund G. Seebauer is James W. Westwater Professor and Head of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has served on the faculty since 1988. He is co-author (with R. L. Barry) of the textbook Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2001), and has developed an undergraduate course in engineering ethics.

Seebauer received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1983, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1986 – both degrees in chemical engineering.  He...Read more

Dr. Gregory Keoleian

Dr. Gregory Keoleian is a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and in the Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringRead more

Dr. Warren Seider

Warren D. Seider is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. For many years,he has contributed to the fields of process analysis, simulation, design, and control. In process design, he coauthored FLOWTRAN Simulation - An Introduction (with J.D. Seader and A.C. Pauls) and Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis,...Read more

Thomas F. Edgar

Thomas F. Edgar, PhD, is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the UT Energy Institute. Dr. Edgar received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

For the past 40 years, he has concentrated his academic work in process modeling, control, and optimization, with over 200 articles and book chapters. Edgar has co-authored two leading textbooks: Optimization of Chemical Processes (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and Process Dynamics and Control (Wiley, 2010) and has received major...Read more

David T. Allen

Dr. David T. Allen is the Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of six books and over 180 papers, primarily in the areas of air quality and pollution prevention.  For the past decade, his work has focused primarily on urban air quality and the development of materials for environmental education.  Dr. Allen was a lead investigator for the first and second Texas Air Quality Studies, which involved hundreds of researchers drawn from around the...Read more

Professor David Glasser

David Glasser is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, and his PhD from Imperial College in London.

His research interests revolve around Mathematical Modelling of Processes, Optimisation, Catalysis, Process Synthesis, Biomedical Engineering and Process Intensification. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers and was Editor-in-Chief of the new book...Read more

Professor Diane Hildebrandt

Diane Hildebrandt is SARChI Professor of Sustainable Process Engineering and Director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her BSc and PhD in Engineering and Chemical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Her current research interests focus on the synthesis and optimisation of reaction and separation processes.

Professor Hildebrandt has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific papers and has received 306 citations in the past three years.

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Jay B. Clare, P.E.

Mr. Clare is a Vice President of the Infrastructure and Environment division of URS Corporation and is the Business Line Director for Sustainability. This role includes development and leadership of strategic sustainability consulting, greenhouse gas management, energy management, water management, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure design and construction services. He was formerly responsible for growing and continually improving service to URS’ power, commercial and industrial customers in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Western Canada, and China.

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