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Joan F. Brennecke

Joan F. Brennecke is currently Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #16 in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her academic career at the University of Notre Dame after completing her Ph.D. and M.S. (1989 and 1987) degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B. S. at the University of Texas at Austin (1984).  

Her research interests are primarily in the development of less environmentally harmful solvents. These include supercritical fluids and ionic liquids. In developing these solvents, Dr....Read more

Dr. James O. Wilkes

Jim Wilkes was born in 1932 in Southampton, England.  He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1955. The English-Speaking Union awarded him a King George VI Memorial Fellowship to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, from which he received a master's degree in 1956 and a PhD in 1963.  He was also a faculty member in chemical engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1956 to 1960, and at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 2000.  At Michigan, he was department chairman from 1971 to 1977, and assistant dean for...Read more

Dr. Dale L. Keairns

Dale’s current work supports the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory and Deloitte business initiatives. His work has implemented methodologies for carrying out techno-economic analyses of candidate future integrated energy systems. Dale had technical and financial responsibility for the development and commercialization of technology to meet market needs during his career at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center. His responsibilities included technology support for the Power Generation, Environmental, and Government Operations Business Units and operation...Read more

Professor Peter Barham

Peter Barham is a Professor of Physics at Bristol University UK, honorary Professor of Molecular Gastronomy in the Life Sciences faculty of the University of Copenhagen and honorary Research Associate at the Animal Demography Unit in Zoology at the University of Cape Town. In Bristol, as well as carrying out his own research in fundamental Polymer Physics and in the conservation of penguins, he is involved in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and a range of adminstrative tasks. In Copenhagen, he is...Read more

Michael F. Doherty

Michael F. Doherty is Duncan & Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, and former Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977.  He taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Massachusetts before joining the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 2000.  His research...Read more

Dr. J. Reed Welker

Dr. Reed Welker earned his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Idaho and his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma.  From 1961 to 1963 he was a group leader and section head at Oil Recovery Corp. in Norman, Oklahoma, where he worked on secondary and tertiary methods of oil recovery.  From 1965 to 1974 he was a research engineer and associate director of the Flame Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma Research Institute.  His research included areas of fundamental fire behavior, ignition of materials, and heat transfer from fires.  From 1965...Read more

Francis J. Doyle III

Francis J. Doyle III serves as Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Doyle, who is also the John A. and Elizabeth Armstrong Professor of Engineering & Applied Sciences, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his insights into natural biological control systems and innovative engineering of diabetes control devices. As co-principal investigator of the artificial pancreas project, Doyle leads a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists who are developing algorithms to automate an insulin delivery...Read more

Kimberly Ogden

Kimberly Ogden, PhD, is the Department Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and a professor at the Univ. of Arizona (Email: ogden@email.arizona.edu). She received her BS degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and her PhD from the Univ. of Colorado. She is a Fellow of AIChE, as well as the 2019 President and a member of the Executive Committee of ABET. Ogden’s research focus includes bioreactor design for the production of alternative fuels and chemicals from algae and guayule, as well as energy/water nexus...Read more

Dr. Charlie Bamforth

Dr. Charlie Bamforth is Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at UCD. He has been part of the brewing industry for over thirty two years. He is formerly Deputy Director-General of Brewing Research International and Research Manager and Quality Assurance Manager of Bass Brewers. He is a Special Professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, England and was previously Visiting Professor of Brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

Charlie is a Fellow of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling, Fellow of the Society of...Read more

David E. Clough

Dr. David Clough has taught applied statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels to chemical engineering students for the past 20 years.  At the graduate level, his students have included practicing professionals.

Dr. Clough recently retired after a 43-year career on the faculty of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado’s Boulder Campus.  He is still active in the Department in the Emeritus role, including the supervision of research in applied process control.  He teaches several AIChE Academy courses, both in-person and eLearning...Read more

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