ChBE News—Fall 2001

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GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING • VOL. 9 NO. 2 • FALL 2001

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School Chair Ronald W. Rousseau Named the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Chair At the end of the spring semester, Provost Jean-Lou Chameau (then Dean of the College of Engineering) had the honor of announcing Dr. Ronald W. Rousseau’s appointment to the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Chair in Chemical Engineering. Professor Rousseau, long-time Chair of the department, is now an endowed faculty member as well, carrying the “Silas Chair” title. Funding for the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Chair in ChE is designed to provide resources for a senior, eminent chemical engineering scholar with a proven

record of leadership and excellence in his or her field. Dr. Rousseau’s distinguished career as a chemical engineer certainly qualifies him for this great honor. He has been the School Chair for the past 14 years, during which time the department has almost doubled the size of its faculty and graduate student class, while maintaining the size of its undergraduate class. In addition, he is co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Wiley, 1978, 1986, 2000), an undergraduate textbook used by more than 80% of the ChE

programs in the United States. He has had numerous research publications and presentations, and is a consulting editor for the AIChE Journal, a member of the Publication Board of Chemical Engineering Education, and a topic editor for Crystal Growth and Design.

Alumni Profile ......................Pg. 2 Faculty News ......................Pg. 5 Alumni News ....................Pg. 11

Professor Paul Kohl (left) congratulates Ron Rousseau after the announcement of his appointment to the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Chair.

Dr. Rousseau’s research focuses on the application of crystallization technology to the

recovery and purification of high-value added chemicals, including biologically produced Continued on page 8

Professor Eric W. Kaler Delivers 17th Annual Ashton Cary Lecture Eric W. Kaler, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware, delivered the 17th Annual Ashton Cary Lecture in April 2001, entitled “Colloidal Scale Engineering.”

Professor Eric W. Kaler

Professor Kaler received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1978 from the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1982 from

the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Professors L. E. Scriven and H. T. Davis. He began his academic career in Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington as Assistant Professor in 1982 and Associate Professor in 1987. In 1989, he moved to the University of Delaware where he became a full professor in 1991, chaired the Chemical Engineering Department from 1996 to 2000, received the Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professorship in 1998, and became

Dean of College of Engineering in 2000. His research interests include colloid and surfactant science, complex fluid dynamics, materials synthesis, and small-angle scattering. He has supervised numerous graduate students in these areas, and has published over 150 journal articles. He received the American Chemical Society Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry in 1998, the American Chemical Society Delaware Section Award in 1998, and the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of Continued on page 8


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