(336i) Becoming a Prausnitzian
AIChE Annual Meeting
2013
2013 AIChE Annual Meeting
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
In Honor of John Prausnitz's 85th Birthday (Invited Talks)
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 3:30pm to 3:50pm
Becoming a Prausnitzian
Jianzhong Wu
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Department of Mathematics
University of California, Riverside, California 92521
On several occasions after a technical presentation someone would come to tell me in private that my talk sounds very Prausnitzian. I take it as a great compliment and enjoys a sense of pride for being affiliated with the big name in chemical engineering. I once shared this experience with the master. While he was apparently pleased with the comment, he told me that he was not quite sure whether it means anything because a Berkeley professor always has a strong influence on his/her graduate students. I worked with John Prausnitz first as a visiting fellow then as a graduate student and also as a postdoctoral researcher. His influence on my personal and professional developments has been enormous. I will share some of that experience in this symposium to celebrate his Life Time Accomplishment Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).