KEVIN J. MYERS, PhD, is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the Univ. of Dayton (Email: kmyers1@udayton.edu). He has been teaching chemical engineering for over 30 years, with an emphasis on transport phenomena and reaction engineering. His research has focused on numerous topics in mechanical agitation and static mixers. He earned his BChE from the Univ. of Dayton and his DSc in chemical engineering from Washington Univ. in St. Louis. He is a member of AIChE and the North American Mixing Forum.