Chemical Engineering Faculty

 

The following is a list of our full-time and part-time faculty, associate members, and
professors emeriti. For a larger image click here

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Professors                

Thomas A. Adams II: green energy conversion, semicontinuous systems, process design,
modeling, simulation and optimization

Emily D. Cranston: sustainable nanocomposites, surface forces and interfacial engineering, biopolymers
and thin films (primarily focused on nanocellulose materials).

Kevin Dunn: Assistant Professor - Teaching

Carlos Filipe: Applied molecular biology, recombinant protein expression and purification,
engineering mRNA for stability and readability.

Raja Ghosh: bioseparation using ultrafiltration, bioseparation using
membrane chromatography, biomimetic membranes.

Todd R. Hoare: nanotechnology, interfacial engineering, biomaterials engineering,
polymer science, pharmaceutical science

Kim S.Jones: tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, immune and
inflammatory responses to biomaterials, host remodelling of implanted constructs.

David Latulippe: biopolymer processing (eg. DNA/RNA purification), Microscale processes,
Unit operation modeling and optimization, structure-processing relationships

Rafik O. Loutfy: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, knowledge management, alternate
energy sources, solar cells, photovoltaic engineering.

Vladimir Mahalec: real-time optimization, advanced process control,
software architecture, process simulation

Prashant Mhaskar: Process control, Nonlinear Lyapunov-based and model predictive
control, Fault-tolerant control, Control of hybrid systems

Robert H. Pelton: polymer colloids, water soluble polymers, interfacial
engineering, flocculation, and latex's.

Heather Sheardown: biomaterials, tissue engineering, mathematical
modeling of physiologic processes, ophthalmic drug delivery.

Christopher L. E. Swartz: Computer Process Control, Optimization.

Michael Thompson: polymer processing, extrusion  and reactive extrusion.

Philip E. Wood: experimental and computational fluid mechanics, heat transfer.

Jie Yu: Advanced process control, smart plant monitoring and diagnosis, intelligent oil production,
bioinformatics and systems biology, biofuels, process analytical technology

Shiping Zhu: polymer materials and reaction engineering, polymer synthesis
and characterization, polymer biomaterials and interfacial engineering, modeling.                        

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Emeritus Faculty

Malcolm H. Baird: mass transfer, fluid mechanics, mixing, liquid-liquid
extraction, pyrometallurgy.

John L. Brash: biomaterials, blood-material interactions, blood compatible
materials, surface modification of polymers, free radical and condensation
polymerization.

Cameron M. Crowe: computer simulation, modeling and optimization,
data reconciliation, applied mathematics, numerical methods.

James M. Dickson: transfer phenomena in membranes, reverse osmosis,
ultrafiltration, electrodialysis, novel polymers.

Irwin A. Feuerstein: blood damage in artificial organs, cell transport
and surface adhesion, cell-surface interactions, video-microscopy.

Archie E. Hamielec: polymer production technology, kinetics, reactors,
characterization.

John F. MacGregor: multivariate statistical methods for process monitoring
and optimization, polymer reaction engineering.

Thomas E. Marlin: computer process control, real time plant optimization,
control structure design.

Paul A. Taylor: computer process control, non linear control, process
identification, expert systems and genetic algorithm applications.

John Vlachopoulos: polymer processing, rheology, finite differences and
finite elements, CAD/CAM methods.

Donald R. Woods: surface phenomena, cost estimation, decision making
and problem solving.

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Adjunct Faculty

Benoit Chachuat: optimization of transient systems, global optimization,optimization-based
process control, real-time optimization.

Santiago Faucher

Andrew N. Hrymak: polymer processing, reactive extrusion and molding, process analysis,
design and optimization.

Lyndon Jones

Theodora Kourti

Qiang Liu

Marko Saban

Guerino Sacripante

Yiliang Wu

 

Associate Members

John Brennan: Bioanalytical Chemistry and High Throughput Screening

Michael A. Brook: Organosilicon Chemistry, Silicon-biopolymer copolymers,
Organofunctional silicones, Silica surface modification, Silane coupling agents.

David K. Potter: polymer structure-property relationships, reactive polymer systems
polymer nanocomposities, innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies.

 

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