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Dr. Meyya Meyyappan

Meyya Meyyappan is Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at the Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA.  Until June 2006, he served as the Director of the Center for Nanotechnology as well as Senior Scientist.   He is a founding member of the Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology(IWGN) established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy(OSTP).  The IWGN is responsible for putting together the National Nanotechnology Initiative.

Dr. Meyyappan has authored or co-authored over 190 articles in peer reviewed...Read more

Professor Richard M. Felder

Richard M. Felder, Ph.D., is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his B.Ch.E. degree from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton. He is a coauthor of the book Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (3rd  Edition, Wiley, 2000), which has been used as the introductory chemical engineering text by well over 100 universities in the United States and abroad, and he has authored or coauthored over 200 papers on chemical process engineering and...Read more

Dr. Robert Kelly

Dr. Robert Kelly obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. After working for two years at DuPont’s Marshall Laboratory in Philadelphia, PA, focusing on waste management problems in coatings manufacture, he moved to North Carolina State University, where he directed Process Engineering for the EPA Coal Gasification/Gas Cleaning Facility. At the same time, he completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State. From there, he moved to Johns Hopkins University as a faculty member in Chemical Engineering, and while there developed a...Read more

Dr. Katherine S. Ziemer

Dr. Katherine S. Ziemer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.   She has been involved in many forms of K-12 outreach since 1990, including DuPont’s “Fun with Science” Tour during her 7 years of industrial experience. She has worked extensively with teachers from the Boston Public Schools and Boston area schools to develop a middle school engineering curriculum, and to create various outreach activities both in the K-12 classrooms and in general public forums.  She is currently working with a team of AIChE...Read more

Dr. Ronald J. Willey

Dr. Ronald J. Willey is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He is an active member of SACHE (Safety and Chemical Engineering Education), a group dedicated to integrating principles of Process Safety into undergraduate Chemical Engineering education. He is the author of over 80 technical papers and over 10 SACHE products, including a product devoted to the Properties of Materials.

Dr. Willey is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is presently the Vice Chair of the Board of Registration for...Read more

Charles A. Petty

Dr. Charles A. Petty is a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University and is presently the Director of the NSF Center for Multiphase Transport Phenomena. In 1966, Professor Petty received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida. He completed his PhD studies in 1970 at Florida and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor. While at Delaware, he participated in a fluidized bed coal combustion program at the Argonne National Laboratory as an NSF Summer...Read more

Tim Lindstrom

Mr. Lindstrom is the Vice President of Operations for Nuclear Fuel Services, joining in September 2006. Located in Erwin, Tennessee, NFS is the major supplier of fuel for the United States Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, and a leader in the conversion of Cold War-era government stockpiles of highly enriched uranium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel. Prior to his arrival at NFS, Mr. Lindstrom completed a distinguished career of over 28 years US Navy active service, and was most recently assigned as Chief of Staff for Commander, Submarine Group Ten, Kings...Read more

Nathan Sanfilippo

Nathan Sanfilippo has been with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) since 2002 and began his current assignment as an Executive Technical Assistant, in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations (OEDO), in May of 2010.  He is the primary advisor to the Executive Director for programs of the Office of New Reactors and for NRC’s Region II office, which oversees operating nuclear power reactors in the Southeast U.S.  Most recently, Nathan was a member of the NRC’s Near-Term Task Force which evaluated insights from the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plants in...Read more

Bhavik Bakshi

Bhavik R. Bakshi is the Richard M. Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received his B.Chem.Eng. degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India and his MSCEP and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is in the area of Sustainable Engineering which is resulting in systematic methods for developing products and processes that make positive contributions to human well-being while being economically feasible and respecting nature's limits. He...Read more

Deborah Grubbe

Ms. Grubbe is the owner and president of Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC. A registered PE, she is a former Chair of the Law Enforcement and Ethics Committee of the Delaware Board, has consulted with NASA on safety culture after the Columbia Shuttle accident and has lectured extensively to students and professionals on safety and ethics. She has 40+ years of experience in industry and in private practice and is currently co-authoring a ebook on an "Engineers' Professional Responsibility."

She hold a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, and a...Read more

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