Stephen P. (Steve) Beaudoin is Professor in Purdue’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. He is Founding Director of the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC), where he directs multiple DoD-sponsored research centers focused on explosives and propellant engineering. He is also Founding Academic Director of a novel online Master’s degree program focused on defense and security that serves three U.S. Navy bases. Beaudoin was the 2021–2022 Chair of the Purdue University Senate, and has served Purdue as Interim Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs. He has chaired multiple sessions at AIChE’s regional and Annual meetings and has been a mentor at the AIChE Young Faculty Workshop. He has published more than 100 refereed articles, has made ~200 technical presentations, and has received the NSF Early Career Faculty Research Award as well as numerous teaching and mentoring awards. He earned his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), his MS from the University of Texas at Austin (1990), and his PhD from North Carolina State University (1995), all in chemical engineering.