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Robert (Bobby) L. Satcher

Dr Robert (Bobby) L. Satcher , earned his BS  and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1994. He was selected for Astronaut training after his Post Doctoral research Fellowship  work at MIT. He flew on the 31st Space Shuttle Mission , STS-129  to the Space Station, in November 2009, logging 259 hours in space ,  and performing two successful Space Walks (EVA Extra Vehicular Activity), of 12  hours duration, .  The Space Shuttle mission was completed in 10 days. ...Read more

Timothy O. Odi

Dr. Timothy O. Odi is an Engineering Fellow at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. He has over 25 years diversified chemical engineering experience in research and development, process engineering, modeling and optimization with two global chemical/petrochemical USA companies, 3 years of university teaching and 1 year of industrial training with petroleum refinery and oxygen plant. His current work involves modeling and process engineering support of olefin and polyolefin manufacturing technologies.Read more

Lance R. Collins

Professor Lance R. Collins is the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to that he served as the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 2005-2010.Read more

The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities

This report from the U.S. Department of Energy provides information on the interdependency of energy and water systems.  Several trends are further increasing the urgency to address to the water-energy nexus including climate change, U.S.

MAC Chemical Engineering Forum

This session will consist of 2014 MAC Eminent Engineers Award recipients 

Session Chair: 

  • Emmanuel A. Dada, ChemProcess Technologies (CPT), LLC,

Panagiotis (Peter) Smirniotis, Ph.D

Panagiotis (Peter) Smirniotis, Ph.D., received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo in 1994.  Peter joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in 1994 as Assistant Professor and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and to Professor in 2002.  He has been the Head of Chemical & Materials Engineering Department at UC from 2005 to 2007 and he is the Chairman of Chemical Engineering at UC since 2010.

Peter has developed an...Read more

Douglas S. Clark

Douglas S. Clark is currently Dean of the College of Chemistry and Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Co-Director of the Synthetic Biology Institute, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and holds the endowed G.N. Lewis Chair. Prior to his appointment as dean, Clark served as Department Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Executive Associate Dean in the College of Chemistry. Clark has been a faculty member at Berkeley since 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical...Read more

Embossing Technique Creates New and Better Nanostructures

July 1, 2014
July 1, 2014

Inspired by industrial embossing techniques, researchers have found a technique that produces finer and cleaner nanostructures using widely available industrial equipment.

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