Rakesh Agrawal joined the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue Univ. in 2004 as Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor, with a teaching and research focus on energy and sustainability. Before Purdue, Agrawal’s career at Air Products and Chemicals included serving as Air Products Fellow and as the first chair of its Technology Board. Under his leadership, innovative process ideas were implemented in hundreds of gas separation and liquefaction plants worldwide. He holds 131 U.S. patents and several hundred non-U.S. patents, and is a recipient of the U.S. National Medal of...Read more