Derrick Rollins

Derrick Rollins received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1979 and worked for the E. I. Du Pont Chemical Company in Kansas, Missouri and Ohio. In the fall of 1985, he returned to college and earned the following degrees from The Ohio State University: an M.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1987, an M.S. degree in statistics in 1989, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1990. He joined the Iowa State University (ISU) in fall of 1990 in a joint appointment between the Statistics Department and the Chemical Engineering Department. Dr. Rollins has received many research grants and awards including the 2013 National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Joseph N.Cannon Award in Chemical Engineering, the 2012 McDonald Mentoring Award from the Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, the 2010 AIChE MAC Eminent Engineer Award, the ISU Louis Thompson Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Regents Faculty Excellence Award, ISU Presidential Service Award, the 1996 AAAS Mentor Award, the 1994 ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, and in 1994 the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellows Award. His research areas include glucose monitoring, modeling and control to help people with diabetes control blood sugar better, development of supporting technology for ventricular assist devices (VAD), nonlinear dynamic modeling in human aging, bin grain dryers, and for improving cancer protocols in Biomedical Engineering; Bio- and Material- Informatics and data mining; and development of processes for non-destructive testing procedures. He is the ISU Director for IIN-SPIRE LSAMP and hold the title of University Professor.