Share 423 Past Winners of the Ernest W. Thiele Award YEAR RECIPIENT AFFILIATION RECOGNITION & ACHIEVEMENT 2018 Donald Chmielewski IIT For advances to the theory of control system design and service to the profession through mentorship, education and leadership. 2017 Doug Nafis Honeywell/UOP For developing new processes in refineries and petrochemical plants, and for mentoring and training future chemical engineers. 2016 Satish Parulekar IIT For research in biotechnology, teaching and service to AIChE. 2015 Randy Snurr Northwestern University For his leadership and creativity in advancing the application of nanoporous metal-organic frameworks in gas separations, gas storage, and showing the power of molecular simulation to design new absorbents. 2014 Alan Zagoria UOP, A Honeywell Co. For his leadership and creativity in hydrogen technology in refining and other areas. 2012 Richard Hoehn UOP, A Honeywell Co. For his leadership and creativity in hydroprocessing technology. 2011 Urmila Diwekar Vishwamitra Research Institute For leading the development of uncertainty analysis in processes 2010 J. Peter Clark Consultant For leading the development of numerous food products and new food preparation processes, and as a mentor and teacher. 2009 Harold H. Kung Northwestern University Seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of catalytic phenomena, innovative design of novel catalytic structures, and leadership in the teaching of sustainability. 2008 Robert Lyczkowski Argonne Innovative application of multiphase theory and computational fluid dynamics in the areas of nuclear, fossil and biochemical engineering. 2007 Lynn H. Rice UOP For his fundamental contributions to the petroleum refining isomerization process. 2005 Dimitri Gidaspow IIT For his fundamental contributions to computational fluid dynamics, multi-phase flow and fluidized bed systems and as an educator. 2004 Ted M. Knowlton PSRI For his contributions to fundamental and applied research, and his leadership in the fields of fluidization and particulate solids. 2003 Ali Cinar IIT Contributions in process modeling, monitoring and control. As an educator championing computers and statistics. 2002 Julio Ottino Northwestern Research in Chaos Theory and mixing of solids and liquids 2001 Paul Sechrist UOP Contributions to computational fluid Mechanics, CCR, and FCC refining processes 2000 Henry Linden IGT (retired) Leadership of the Institute Of Gas Tech. 1999 S. George Bankoff Northwestern Heat transfer advances in chemical and nuclear engineering 1998 Arvind Varma Notre Dame Fundamental advances in synthesis of materials, catalysis and reactor stability 1997 Hamid Arastoopour IIT Academic leadership and environmental engineering 1996 Rathin Datta Argonne Original research in metabolic engineering and membranes 1995 Norman Li UOP Pioneering research in membranes and separations 1994 J.W. Westwater Univ. of Illinois Research in Heat transfer and contributions in teaching 1993 R.J. Bertolacini Amoco Catalysis research innovations and leadership 1992 J.J. Carberry Notre Dame Chemical Reaction Engineering research, innovation, and education 1990 R.S. Mah Northwestern Chemical Process System Analysis 1989 D.T. Wasan IIT Research and Progress on Separation Processes 1988 L.O. Stine UOP Petroleum/Petrochemical Processes 1987 G. Thodos Northwestern Physical Property Advances 1986 T.J. Hanratty Univ. Of Illinois Advances in Fluid Mechanics 1985 B.B. Broughton UOP Aromatics Separation Processes, adsorptive separation 1983 E.W. Thiele Standard Oil (Indiana) Catalysis, Distillation fundamental advances