Dr. Phillip R. Westmoreland
Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North CarolinaState University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research focuses on reaction kinetics and engineering, obtained from experiments, computational chemistry and reactor modeling. His Chemical Engineering degrees are fromN.C. State (BS73), LSU (MS74) and MIT (PhD86). From 1986-2009, Phil was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in 2006-2009 he served as a Program Director at NSF.
He was 2013 AIChE President; is a Trustee and past president of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation; and was founding Chair of AIChE’s Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum. He is a Fellow of AIChE.
His awards include AIChE's Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, ASEE's Corcoran Award, the NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's David Shirley Award.
ChEnected contributions
Materials Genome Initiative Soft Materials Summit Webinars
Four upcoming webinars provide the opportunity to learn more about—and influence—the direction of soft-matter research programs funded by the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative.
Second Phase of Education: Lane Daley at Eastman Chemical in Kingsport
Hear from Lane Daley, a process improvement engineer at Eastman Chemical, and her mentor, Eastman Chemical staff engineer Josh Keller, to learn about the second phase of chemical engineering education.
Second Phase of Education: Mariam Al-Meer at Shell in Qatar
Learn about one young chemical engineer's career at the Pearl GTL plant and about what she's had to learn on the job.
The Second Phase of ChE Education
What you learn in a ChE degree program is powerful—but once we start work, every chemical engineer finds out they need to learn even more.
January 2013 Message from AIChE President, Phil Westmoreland
As I begin 2013 as AIChE’s president, I want to share my belief that we’re entering a new Golden Age of Chemical Engineering. Why is this a time for chemical engineering to shine?
Seizing the Future of ChE
In this week’s final post in the series about a new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about our profession’s opportunities and challenges.
Embracing the Breadth and the Unity of ChE
In this week’s final post in the series about a new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about the breadth of chemical engineering and how the many different areas of our profession are linked by a common background and problem-solving approaches.
From Big Data to Smart Manufacturing
In this week’s post about the new Golden Age of ChE and the role of computing, Phil Westmoreland writes about “From Big Data to Smart Manufacturing.”
Massively Parallel Computing and Massive Impacts for ChE
In this week’s post about the new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about “Massively parallel computing and massive impacts for ChE.”
ChE Computing Becomes Cyberinfrastructure
Computing and communication networks have become a ubiquitous “cyberinfrastructure” for our personal and professional ChE lives.
Biology and ChE: Applying a Molecular Science (Part II)
Bioscience has become an important part of chemical engineering. This post reflects on how bioscience and ChE have changed each other and what changes are in store.
Biology and ChE: Applying a Molecular Science (Part I)
Biology has become a molecular science and an important part of chemical engineering. That began by use of non-bio-specific tools, and now it is influencing ChE directly.
The New Energy Mix: Abundance and Sustainability?
The US’s surge in production of natural gas is by methods that are spreading around the world. As oil begins to be abundant, too, can we have the benefits and still move toward sustainable energy?
Shale Gas in the Middle of the Worldwide Energy Drama
The second basis for asserting a new Golden Age of Chemical Engineering is the new abundance of hydrocarbon resources in the US. In this post, we focus on the worldwide impacts of fracking and shale gas.
More ChE Manufacturing: Rebuilding the Body
Tissue engineering is potentially a new area of custom ChE-style manufacturing, illustrating how our approaches to manufacturing go beyond the popular view that manufacturing is making products with machinery or assembly lines.