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Bruce A. Finlayson

Bruce A. Finlayson is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Rice University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. He served for two years as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, working at the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C. He has taught chemical engineering and applied mathematics at the University of Washington for over forty years.

In 1983 he was appointed the Rehnberg Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington and, that same year, received the...Read more

Calvin B. Cobb

Dr. Calvin B. Cobb grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri, born of Depression-era parents. His father was a high school graduate, his mother only finished grade school but they had the wisdom to point Calvin and his brother Tom down the right path. It was simply assumed they would go to college to make “a better life” and find a way to give something back to the world around them.

Calvin’s father owned a business and his mother worked by his side. He observed their work ethic everyday around the house and in the community and realized at a young age that the long, hard hours his parents...Read more

Sidney F. Sapakie

Sidney F. Sapakie has completed a 33-year career in industry. His most recent position was vice president of International R & D for General Mills, Inc. He earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the University of Minnesota, and is a registered professional engineer. He has served on advisory boards at the University of Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois. He is currently a consultant to industry and a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Sid was elected a Fellow of AIChE in 1998, and served as President of AIChE in 2003.Read more

Dianne Dorland

Dorland received her BS and MS in chemical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and joined AIChE in 1969. She worked for Union Carbide and DuPont and earned a PhD in 1985 from West Virginia University. Dorland moved to academia in 1986 at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and is now dean of engineering at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. She is a licensed professional engineer in several states.Read more

William D. Byers

Byers’ career has covered 29 years. He is currently Vice President for the Energy, Environment, and Systems Group of CH2M HILL. He started his career as a research engineer with Fractionation Research, Inc., and later served as process engineer for Fluor Engineers and Constructors before joining CH2M HILL.Read more

Lawrence B. Evans

Lawrence B. Evans has served as Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Rive Technology since 2005. Rive is an early stage company commercializing advanced catalyst technology for clean energy applications. Previously, he founded Aspen Technology in 1981 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until 2002. During this time the company grew from a start-up to become the leading provider of software and solutions to the chemical process manufacturing industries. He was professor of chemical engineering at MIT from 1962 to 1990, where he was well known for his work in...Read more

Rosemarie D. Wesson

Dr. Rosemarie D. Wesson joined the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001 as a Visiting Scientist/Engineer on leave from The Dow Chemical Company in Midland Michigan. She is currently Program Director for the Chemical and Biological Separations Program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Division and adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Prior to joining NSF, Dr. Wesson was a Senior Research Leader in Dow Chemical Company’s Corporate Materials...Read more

Carol K. Hall

I am the Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State Univ. Originally trained in physics, I have been in chemical engineering since 1977, when I joined Princeton’s Chemical Engineering Dept. as one of the first women to be appointed to a ChE faculty in the U.S. In 1985, I moved to NC State, where I teach thermodynamics and do research by applying molecular modeling and simulations to ChE problems. I have published 190 papers, am an AIChE Fellow, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005....Read more

John G. Ekerdt

John G. Ekerdt received the B.S degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, California in 1979, all in chemical engineering.

He is currently Associate Dean for Research in Engineering and the Dick Rothwell Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has more than 250 refereed publications, two books and three book chapters, and six U.S. patents. He has supervised 42 Ph.D. and 8 M.S. students. His current research investigates the surface, growth, and...Read more

Robert C. Armstrong

Professor Robert C. Armstrong is the Chevron Professor and former Department Head of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); He served as co-chair of MIT’s Energy Research Council and is presently Director of the MIT Energy Initiative. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology with highest honors in 1970, with the Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree. He then received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Chemical Engineering.

Professor Armstrong has received a...Read more

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