Chemical Enginering Faculty

The following is a list of our full-time and part-time faculty, associate members, and
professors emeriti.

Professors                             

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Emeritus Faculty

Malcolm H.I. 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.

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.

Leslie W. Shemilt: electrochemical mass transfer and corrosion processes,
thermodynamics, radioactive waste management.

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.

Adjunct Faculty

Santiago Faucher

Lyndon Jones:

Kris Kostanski: polymerization and polymer characterization.

T. Kourti: statistical methods for process monitoring & optimization.

Qiang Liu:

Paul Szabo:

Yiliang Wu

Honglu Yu

Associate Members

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

Joseph McDermid: Steel Product Application, Metallic and Non-metallic Coatings
for Advanced Steels, Materials and Microstructural Engineering, Process Control
and Analysis

Judith West-Mays: Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms Regulating Eye
Development and Disease