February 2012

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. 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. 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

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