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In fall 2001, Professor WilliamKoros joined the faculty ofChemical Engineering as theRoberto C. Goizueta Chair in

Chemical Engineering. Hebrings considerable industrialand academic experience to theSchool. Dr. Koros received allof his degrees in ChemicalEngineering from The Univer-sity of Texas. He worked inthe Engineering Department ofthe E. I. DuPont Company forfour years and joined thefaculty of the Chemical Engi-neering Department at NorthCarolina State University in1977. At North Carolina State,he primarily focused on barrierpackaging and diffusion funda-mentals, but also began toinvestigate membrane-based

separations. Synthetic mem-branes are thin man-madebarriers capable of separatingmixtures by selective passage ofmolecules that have differentcharacteristics. In other words,they are molecular scale filters. Billreturned to the Department ofChemical Engineering at theUniversity of Texas at Austinin 1984 to help lead an effortrelated to membrane-basedseparations.

Since that time, his researchgroup has focused on allaspects of these molecularscale filters. The goal is to

create the next generation ofmembrane materials and struc-tures with the potential tominimize energy, and environ-mental and economic costsassociated with performingimportant separations neededby society. The special focus ofDr. Koros’s group is on separa-tion of gas mixtures. Animportant application of themembrane work is to producenitrogen enriched air foreconomical storage of foodsand to blanket fuels in trans-port for greater safety. Thegroup also produces mem-

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Professor Arnold Stancell Named the First Turner Chair

Professor William Koros Joins the School as the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair

By David TerrasoInstitute Communications and Public Affairs

Arnold Stancell’s enthusiasmfor teaching is infectious. Abundle of potential and kineticenergy, the chemical engineer-ing professor’s eyes twinkle ashe delves into a subject he’sexcited about, and he has theability to convince you thatyou’re just as excited as he is.He’s charismatic, bright andcreative, all qualities thatshould serve him well in hisappointment to Tech’s newly

created Turner Chair in ServantLeadership.

As chair, Stancell will helpdevelop Tech’s student leader-ship initiative, designed toteach leadership skills to under-graduates. The Turner Chairfigured prominently in thisyear’s State of the InstituteAddress, part of PresidentWayne Clough’s ongoing planto create a more student-focused education. The initia-tive has been under develop-ment for the past two years byVice Provost for Undergradu-

ate Studies and AcademicAffairs Robert McMath and byLee Wilcox, Vice President ofStudent Affairs.

“The thing that really distin-guishes Georgia Tech’s attitudeabout leadership from [that of]other schools is our notion thatleadership skills should betaught to everyone, not just aselect few,” explained Wilcox.

Stancell’s appointment comesafter an illustrious career in theprivate sector. Before joiningContinued on page 8

Professor Arnold F. Stancell

Professor William J. Koros

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C H E M N E W S

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING • VOL. 10 NO. 1 • SPRING/SUMMER 2002

The AIChE Student Chaptermaintains strong interactionswith many of the companiesseeking to recruit chemical engi-neers at Georgia Tech. Theseinteractions take various forms,but clearly the most visible activ-ity involves industrial speakersmaking presentations at weeklymeetings. There are 25 meet-ings per year, which are usuallyattended by 60-70 students andare followed by lunch. Just thenumber of industrial speakers atTech sets the AIChE StudentChapter apart from its peers.

Because of the quality of ourstudents as well as the qualityand the size of our program,Tech is on the “must visit” listof most companies. This servesour students well and largelyexplains the success of theAIChE Employment Clearing-house (held a day after the GTCareer Fair). Now in its eighthyear, this event has attracted anincreasing number of compa-nies (20 companies participatedlast fall).

This corporate interaction is awin-win situation for everyoneinvolved. For sponsoringcompanies, it offers access tostudents for full-time, co-op, andsummer intern positions. For

students, in addition to network-ing for their job search, theweekly AIChE presentationsoffer a chance to learn aboutvarious career options. Thespeakers, who represent adiverse range of industries, have

the opportunity to talk about avariety of topics: (1) guidelinesto follow during an interview, (2)what companies are looking forbesides academic performance,(3) the role of information tech-

nology in the current workplace, and (4) corporate restruc-turing, futuristic themes, and soforth. In addition, the studentslearn about the global nature ofbusiness, the importance ofteam-work in a multi-disciplinary

environment, and the impor-tance of communication skills.These industrial interactionsallow students to learn about thenon-academic factors that play acritical role in success at thework place. They also learn toovercome the fear of speakingwith a potential recruiter. Therecruiter also benefits by inter-viewing a well-rounded studentwho has already had an oppor-tunity to focus on the kind ofcareer he/she wants to build.Only when everyone wins, doesa program become sustainable.Now in its eleventh year, theAIChE Speakers Program, withan average of 25 speakers peryear, is clearly a beneficialprogram for both students andthe industry.

If your company is interested inparticipating in the AIChESpeakers Program, please contactthe group’s faculty advisor, Dr.Pradeep Agrawal, by calling 404-894-2826 or by emailingpradeep.agrawal@che.gatech.edu.

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School Events

AIChE Chapter Beneficial to Students and Industry

Professor Robert Samuels chats with Artie Schroeder, ChE1974 and his wife Charlotte Schroeder, ChE 1976 duringthe School’s Homecoming celebration last fall.

Tech’s 2002 Homecoming is set for October 24-26. You areinvited to join us for a reception during homecoming tocelebrate 2002 as the start of the next century of ChemicalEngineering at Tech!

School Chair Ronald Rousseau welcomes parents andstudents to the campus-wide Parent’s Weekend event lastfall. In addition to other scheduled activities, parentsenjoyed the opportunity to meet their children’s instruc-tors and to tour their classrooms and laboratories.

The next Parent’s Weekend is scheduled for Friday andSaturday, October 4-5, 2002.

Air Products & ChemicalsAlbemarle, Inc.BASFBP-AmocoCloroxDow ChemicalEastman ChemicalsEli LillyEquistar ChemicalsExxon MobilFrito-Lay, Inc.General MillsHercules, Inc.HoneywellInternational Paper Co.

Johnson & JohnsonKimberly-ClarkKOSAMerckMilliken & Co.Minnesota Mining and

ManufacturingNational Starch & ChemicalsProcter & GambleRhodiaRohm & HaasSolvayUOPWeyerhauser

Recent Corporate Participants in the AIChE Speakers Program

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branes to remove impurities from natural gas and is investigating theremoval of undesirable components from exhaust gases—the appli-cation possibilities are almost unlimited.

Dr. Koros’s group includes 11 graduate students, five of whomjoined him this fall from the entering class of new students. Thesupport for his research group is provided from various sources.Federal funds come from the Department of Energy, the NationalScience Foundation, and the National Institute of Science andTechnology. Industrial funds come from BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco and Air Liquide. Ongoing collaboration with the Separa-tions Research Program at the University of Texas, involving aUniversity-Industry consortium, also provides funds that leveragesupport from the Georgia Research Alliance and the GoizuetaEndowed Chair funds.

Dr. Koros has published over 200 articles and holds six US Patentsin the areas of sorption and transport of small molecules in poly-mers, molecular sieve carbons and ceramics. Besides his researchprogram, Dr. Koros serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ofMembrane Science, which is the major archival resource for themembrane field. This journal publishes over 4,000 pages a yearfrom authors around the world. Dr. Koros is also the Secretary ofthe North American Membrane Society and is a past Chair of theAIChE Separations Division.

Dr. Koros has received a number of honors in recognition of hisresearch efforts. While at North Carolina State University, hereceived the Sigma Xi Award, and at the University of Texas, hereceived a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investi-gator Award. He was selected as an Outstanding Young Texas Exin 1991 and he served as Chairman of the Chemical EngineeringDepartment at UT from 1993 to 1997. Dr. Koros received theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Institute Awardfor Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology in 1995 and theAIChE Separation Division Clarence Gerhold Award in Separationsin 1999. He was also elected to the National Academy of Engineer-ing in 2000 and selected as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Collegeof Engineering at UT Austin in 2000.

Dr. Koros believes strongly in the complementary value of under-graduate and graduate educational efforts. While at North CarolinaState University he was selected as one of the university’s fourteenOutstanding Teachers, and at the University of Texas, he receivedthe General Dynamics Teaching Award, which is the highest awardgiven for teaching in the College of Engineering. He edits a columnentitled, “Learning in Industry” in Chemical Engineering Education tohighlight this increasingly important aspect of industry-universitycooperation. He emphasizes that students learn most by practicingthe skills they have learned about in the classroom, and he seeks toalso integrate undergraduate students into his research group as wellas promoting their participation in industrial internships.

Bill, his wife, Ann, and cat (Buddy) and dog (Smoky) are enjoyingtheir new home, which is close to campus. They have transformedtheir backyard into a mini nature-sanctuary. This latter feat tooksome effort, with their dog now wearing a “Smoky-Alert” cow belland their cat sporting two separate “Buddy-Alert” bells to keep thesquirrels and birds apprised of their whereabouts.

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In Memoriam: Dixie E. Goins, ChE 1974 It is with sadness and regret thatthe School reports Dixie Goinsdied on January 31 following aheart attack at age 51.

Dixie had been a member of theChemical Engineering ExternalAdvisory Board for several yearsand served as its chair for a two-year term ending December2001. He was a member of theexternal committee thatreviewed the administration andprograms of the School in Janu-ary 2001 and was a member of

the Georgia Tech College ofEngineering Academy of Distin-guished Engineering Alumni.

At the time of his death, Dixiewas Vice President of Researchand Development at the Albe-marle Corporation. He issurvived by his three children,but his wife tragically passedaway little more than a year ago.

In honor of his memory, theaward that Dixie instituted forour students has been renamed

the Albemarle Corporation DixieGoins Outstanding SophomoreAward. A celebration to offi-cially announce this change willbe held at Albemarle headquar-ters in Baton Rouge, La. laterthis year. We are grateful to ourfriends at Albemarle and toDixie’s family for attending thepresentation of the first awardduring our Student AwardsBanquet (see page 11) in April.

We will miss Dixie and hisparticipation in School activities.

Dixie E. Goins, ChE 1974 andFormer EAB Chairman

Funding for the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair for Excellence in

Chemical Engineering provides resources for a distinguished

chemical engineering scholar who is a proven leader in environ-

mentally benign chemical processing with the potential to

impact the quality of research and educational programs in the

School. Such leadership is essential for the School to achieve its

vision of being one of the best chemical engineering programs

in the world at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

The late Mr. Roberto C. Goizueta, former chairman and chief

executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company, was a chemical

engineering graduate of Yale University. He is widely credited

with the “globalization” of Coca-Cola, which also increased the

prominence of Atlanta, the city that the Cuban native grew to

view as his home.

By Zubair AnwarChE 2002

I have always embraced changebecause one can only becomebetter by welcoming change asan opportunity to grow andexplore one’s potential. Moti-vated by this spirit, I decided tocome to Georgia Tech and fly7,000 miles away from home. Ihad applied to very few schoolsin the U.S., taking care tochoose some of the best engi-neering schools where I wouldhave the most ease of adjustingculturally. Georgia Tech was agreat choice in that regard,since it has a reputation foroffering one of the best engi-neering educations one can findin an atmosphere where some-one like me can also obtainconsiderable cultural comfort asan undergraduate.

In helping me get me off to agood start, the strongestimpression was made by Dr.Ludovice during the ChemicalProcess Principles class. In thevery first lecture he went overthe building blocks of chemicalengineering and convinced methat as a chemical engineer Icould do anything. He wavedhis hands all over the place ashe talked about applicationsranging from chemical vapordeposition to the material in ababy’s diaper while I absorbedeverything he had to say, gain-ing as much excitement as I

could. Being the only interna-tional student in the class, I didfeel reluctant to ask questions,but Dr. Ludovice alwaysresponded enthusiastically toincrease my comfort level.

As a result, I continued toprobe for commitment fromthe faculty to keep me excitedabout the course material. Dr.Morris andDr. Stancelldid an excel-lent job inthat regardduring Ther-modynamics Iand II, respec-tively. Bothtook the timeto make surethat I under-stood thematerial byexplaining each new conceptand equation with exquisitedetail. Dr. Morris would oftenwalk out of the class room forhis water break signaling a brainstorm session while Dr. Stancellhad plenty of examples andstories to tell to help me gain abetter understanding of thematerial. However, amongst allthe professors, Dr. Skelland dida truly amazing job of coveringcourse material and getting meexcited about learning. I wasalways reminded of my highschool chemistry teacher whenDr. Skelland used to say, “Learnyour material forwards, back-

wards and sideways.” That verystrategy got me through highschool and it was very reassur-ing to hear the same at college.I believe part of being excitedabout learning can be attributedto what I had learned growingup. I was taught to respectteachers next to parents, whichI did at Georgia Tech fromwithin my heart. I had been

among afortunate fewin Pakistan toget a goodhigh schooleducation andthat hadtaught me tovalue what myteachers hadto offer byworking dili-gently andenthusiasti-

cally. I believe most professorsat Georgia Tech sensed that andhelped me improve immensely.Our respect for each other wasmutual.

Apart from academics, I havehad a great time at GeorgiaTech. I believe that Tech has alot to offer to those who wishto engage themselves in extra-curricular activities. Despitebeing an international studentand someone who was stilllearning about the Americanculture, the Department ofHousing responded positivelyto my desire to learn more

about my environment byallowing me to work as acommunity advisor. I wasenthusiastic about learning newthings and adapting to mysurrounding culture, and I wasable to do so by interacting withresidents and fellow staffmembers. The excellent atten-dance at cultural programs thatI organized for the communityis a prime example. For exam-ple, I recently cooked plenty ofspicy Pakistani food for resi-dents to enjoy as they socializedin a get together. Plenty ofpeople showed up to the eventand their enthusiasm to learnmore about Pakistani food andculture was indicative of theeagerness of the students atGeorgia Tech to broaden theirperspective.

As I prepare to graduate, I real-ize that I have grown to be abetter person during the lastfour years that I have spent atGeorgia Tech. That is owedprimarily to the spirit of thestudents at Tech who are eagerto learn. The faculty, too, iseager to teach and make learn-ing exciting, yielding an excel-lent combination of faculty andstudents and a community thatopenly welcomes the perspec-tive that international studentslike me have to offer. I am surethat I will always look back atthe time spent at Georgia Techwith fondness.

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Global AwarenessLiving 7,000 Miles Away from Home

ith an enrollment of 2,450 in fall 2001, Georgia Tech had the largest enrollment of international students

in a single semester in its history. The country with the largest representation is India, with 494, followed

by PR China (389), then Korea (339). France and Turkey complete the top five countries represented.

These numbers reflect the growth in international students on the national scene as well, with the most recent

statistics showing a total of 547,867 at American institutions of higher education.

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Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen has been elected a Fellow of the Societyof Plastics Engineers.

Victor Breedveld has accepted an offer to join the faculty of theSchool of Chemical Engineering. He will complete a postdoctoralappointment this fall and will join the School in January as an Assis-tant Professor.

Last spring, a small group of scientists from Cal Tech, LockheedMartin Astronautics and Arizona State University invited Prof.Larry Forney to join them in the preparation of a concept studyfor a proposed Mars mission with a projected launch in the year2007. The group’s proposal, subsequent award and final report iscalled SCIM (Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars). Themission is designed to make a single pass at over 7 km/s at an alti-tude of 40 km through the Martian atmosphere, collect dust andatmospheric gas and then return the material to Earth for analysisin the year 2010. Such a sample would constitute the first return inhistory of planetary material to Earth. Forney’s task was to coordi-nate a study with the NASA Johnson Space Center of potentialproblems in the collection of micron size particles from high speed,rarefied flows, a field in which he has published extensively.

Martha Gallivan has accepted an offer to join the faculty of theSchool of Chemical Engineering. Her official appointment asAssistant Professor begins in January, but she will be on campus acouple of months prior to that time.

Christopher W. Jones was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,331,500 (2001)“Functionalized Molecular Sieves;” awarded an NSF CAREERAward; and attended the first “International Catalysis Workshop forYoung Scientists” in Beijing, China, as part of the NSF-sponsored,seven person delegation from the U.S.

On May 13, Jacqueline Mohalley joined the School as a ProgramSpecialist and is responsible for conducting the Air Products andChemicals Communication Program. Jacqueline’s experienceincludes working as an instructional design consultant atCustomTBT and as a teaching assistant and a rhetoric instructor atthe University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has a B.A. inHistory & English from Stanford and M.A. degrees from bothStanford and the University of Illinois.

Sankar Nair has also accepted an offer to join the faculty of theSchool of Chemical Engineering. He will complete a one-yearpostdoctoral appointment before he joins the faculty as AssistantProfessor in fall 2003.

Mark Prausnitz, along with M.G. Allen, D.V. McAllister, and F.Cross, was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,334,856 in January formicroneedle devices and methods of manufacture and use thereof.He was also selected as one of the “40-Under-40 Rising Stars” of2001 by Georgia Trend Magazine; and was appointed to the editorialboards of two journals: Pharmaceutical Research and the Journal ofControlled Release.

Athanassios Sambanis will be promoted to the rank of Professoreffective July 1.

Faculty/Staff News

JennyDaley Position: Director ofDevelopment

Joined School: September24, 2001

Before ChE: Spent twoyears as director of devel-opment for Atlanta adulteducation agency Literacy

Action, Inc.; prior to that worked two years at The CarterCenter; previous experience at Reinhardt College in Waleska,Georgia

Education: B.A. in Classics (Latin) and English from theUniversity of Virginia

Personal Interests: I stay busy teaching adult tap dancing classesand power walking. I completed two marathons last year –but I think the Peachtree Road Race 10K will be enough for2002! I enjoy movies and curling up with a good book. Igrew up in Roswell, and I’m thrilled to be working at aworld-class university in my hometown.

The new home of Chemical Engineering is well on its wayto completion with construction on The Ford Environmen-tal Science & Technology Building scheduled to becompleted in late summer 2002. The School expects tomove into what will be the largest academic building oncampus during the fall semester. The photo above showshow the building looks now with a portion of the new RossChandler Baseball Stadium in the foreground. Weeklyphotos of the construction progress are available on-line byvisiting our web site at www.che.gatech.edu.

On March 20, 2002, ProfessorGrossmann delivered the 18thAnnual Ashton Cary Lectureentitled “Modeling and Compu-tational Challenges in the Plan-ning and Scheduling of ProcessSystems,” and a second compan-ion lecture on the following dayentitled “Logic-Based Modelingand Solution for Discrete/Continuous Problems in ProcessSystems Engineering.”

Professor Ignacio E. Grossmannis the University Rudolph R. andFlorence Dean Professor ofChemical Engineering andDepartment Head at CarnegieMellon University. He obtainedhis B.S. degree in ChemicalEngineering at the UniversidadIberoamericana, Mexico City, in1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. inChemical Engineering at Imper-ial College in 1975 and 1977,respectively. After working as anR&D engineer at the InstitutoMexicano del Petroleo in 1978,he joined Carnegie Mellon in1979. He was Director of theSynthesis Laboratory in theEngineering Design ResearchCenter from 1988 to 1993.Together with Professors West-erberg and Biegler, he is co-founder of the “Center forAdvanced Process Decision-making,” which comprises about15 chemical and petroleumcompanies. His research inter-

ests encompass process synthe-sis, energy integration, processflexibility, planning and schedul-ing of batch and continuousprocesses, and mixed-integer andlogic-based optimization. Hehas authored more than 190papers, several monographs ondesign cases studies, and thetextbook Systematic Methods ofChemical Process Design. He is amember of the National Acad-emy of Engineering, MexicanAcademy of Engineering, asso-ciate editor of AIChE Journal,and member of the editorialboards of Computers and ChemicalEngineering, Journal of Global Opti-mization, Optimization and Engi-neering, and Latin AmericanApplied Research. His majorawards include the 1984 Presi-dential Young InvestigatorAward, the 1994 Computing inChemical Engineering Award ofthe CAST Division of AIChE,and the 1997 William H. WalkerAward of AIChE.

His first lecture was entitled:“Modeling and ComputationalChallenges in the Planning andScheduling of Process Systems”

In this lecture he demonstratedthat there are potential savingsthat can be achieved by improv-ing the logistics of manufactur-ing without new capital invest-ment. This is a major reason forthe recent attention given to thedevelopment of optimizationmodels for planning and sched-uling of chemical processes.This is true for both large-scalecontinuous processes andspecialty batch operations.Examples of savings includelower inventories, lower transi-tion costs, and reduction inproduction shortfalls. Moreimportantly, the interest in plan-ning and scheduling hasincreased with the processindustry’s goal of improving themanagement and dynamics oftheir supply chains.

The lecture provided anoverview of planning and sched-uling in the process industry,emphasizing both modeling andcomputational challenges, as wellas the role that chemical engi-neers can play in these problems.Professor Grossmann demon-strated that there are a greatvariety of applications andconsiderations that make itextremely challenging to developgeneral-purpose models, as wellas solution methods that remaincomputationally tractable as theproblem size increases. The keychallenge is to keep the expo-nential “knee” in the computa-tional time above the problemsizes in which you are interested.Specifically, he described severalapplications on which he hasworked in the last few years.One application was assistingExxon-Mobil with the long-range planning of off-shore oilfield infrastructures, especially inAfrica. He demonstrated howdetailed geophysical 3D reser-voir simulations that predictedoil recovery could be combinedwith optimization techniques tohelp determine the locations ofwell-heads and platforms overthe lifetime of the field, improv-ing the overall economics bymillions of dollars.

In the second lecture entitled“Logic-Based Modeling andSolution for Discrete/Continu-ous Problems in ProcessSystems Engineering,” ProfessorGrossmann addressed technicalaspects of posing and solvingscheduling and planning prob-lems in more detail. ProfessorGrossmann focused his talk onmixed-integer programming,which has emerged as a majorenabling technology in ProcessSystems Engineering. Applica-tions of this technique includeprocess synthesis, processcontrol, and planning and sched-uling. This has allowed simulta-neous decision-making for struc-

tural degrees of freedom, suchas the connectivity of the flowsheet and choice of unit opera-tions and parameter optimiza-tion of flow rates and composi-tions. The lecture alsoaddressed discrete/continuousoptimization models that giverise to mixed-integer nonlinearprograms when expressed inalgebraic form, and provided abrief overview of these tech-niques. He described hispioneering work in logic-basedoptimization methods that canhandle mixtures of equationsand symbolic logic expressionsin order to facilitate the model-ing and reduce the combinatorialcomplexity when solving theseproblems. He introduced thetopic of Generalized DisjunctiveProgramming (GDP), a class ofoptimization models that involveBoolean and continuous vari-ables to model algebraic equa-tions and inequalities. Thispermits the expression ofdiscrete decisions in the continu-ous space with disjunctions, andconstraints in the discrete spacewith logic propositions. Majordevelopments to which Profes-sor Grossmann was a majorcontributor include the deriva-tion of convex nonlinear relax-ations of the nonlinear GDPproblem that rely on the convexhull representation of each ofthe disjunctions. The proposednonlinear relaxation can be usedto reformulate the GDP prob-lem as a tight MINLP problem,or for deriving branch andbound and decomposition meth-ods. The applications of thesetechniques in the superstructureoptimization of process flowsheets, design of reactive distilla-tion columns, and in the designand scheduling of multiproductbatch plants demonstrated thatcomputational speed-up ofseveral orders of magnitudecould be achieved.

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Professor Ignacio E. Grossmann

Dr. Ignacio Grossmann Delivers 18th Annual Ashton Cary Lecture

he School of ChemicalEngineering bid farewellthis year to three long-time and respected

members of its faculty: WilliamErnst, A.H.P. Skelland and JackWinnick. Combined together,these three faculty membershave an impressive 74 years ofservice to the School. Facultyand staff members gathered inthe Gordy Room of the Ward-law Center in October to cele-brate their colleagues’ retirementwith toasts and fellowship.

Dr. William ErnstA 1974 Ph.D. graduate of theUniversity of Delaware, WilliamErnst worked for Allied Chemi-cal Corporation prior to joiningthe Georgia Tech faculty in1973. His research interestswhile at the Institute were reac-tion engineering and kinetics andcatalysis, specifically kinetics andcatalysis of chlorine dioxidegeneration, preparation ofsupported metal catalysts, cata-lyst regeneration, and the influ-ence of transport processes onkinetics. He also conductedresearch in the area of processdesign and pursued technicalscience writing.

Professor Ernst is an avid tennisand golf player but his real love

is listening to and playing jazzmusic. Two of his favoritemusicians are John Coltrane andMiles Davis. In fact, Dr. Ernst’slove of jazz actually extendsbeyond the realm of hobby. Hewas the piano-playing memberof a jazz combo called “Jazz NoChaser” for several years, whichconsisted of another Techfaculty member and two gradu-ate students. The group playedat Tech functions and alsoperformed off campus at severalvenues, including one year at theAtlanta Jazz Festival.

Retirement plans for Dr. Ernstfocus primarily on continuinghis work as a partner in a startupcompany that deals with prod-ucts designed for controlledrelease of chemicals for specialtyapplications. Since his officialretirement in December, he hasbeen devoted full time to thiswork that focuses on the safeproduction and controlledrelease of chlorine dioxide, achemical with biocidal propertiesthat can be used in disinfectionand odor control. Dr. Ernst willbe remembered by faculty andstudents alike for his mildmanner and exceptionallyfriendly personality. When askedto recall one of his most humor-ous moments at Tech, Dr. Ernst

smiled sheepishly and said thathe had tried, but simply couldnot think of any. “I think theymust have all been funny,” hereplied.

Dr. Jack WinnickDr. Winnick received his Ph.D.in 1963 from the University ofOklahoma and joined the Chem-ical Engineering faculty in 1979,complete with a handful ofgraduate students and a roomfulof equipment. His researchprogram got off to a fast startand continues now beyond hisretirement. At the end of theseventies, his areas ofresearch—electrochemical engi-neering—was a sleepy subset ofchemical engineering, but withthe advent of new batteries andfuel cells it is now an area thatcommands a lot of interest inthe engineering community. Ithas always been his goal for theresults of his research to helpsolve some of the energy andenvironmental problems thatface our world today.

Dr. Winnick’s retirement planshave already begun and thosewho know of his love of thetheatre, will not be surprised tolearn that he has moved tosouthern California. His newhome is located on the west sideof Los Angeles near the plot ofland where MGM madeDorothy’s house fall on one ofthe witches in The Wizard of Oz.He jokingly reports that the“other witch lives down thestreet.” Other than enjoying theCalifornia sun, he is also teach-ing Plant Design as a part-timerat UCLA.

Dr. Winnick also reports that hemisses playing tennis with“Ernst and the other guys.” Healso says that everyday seemslike summer in Los Angeles andhe enjoys playing golf at RanchoPark near his house where

“there is a plaque stating Presi-dent William Jefferson Clintonplayed (golf) here, costs $20, andif you’re old and cranky enough,they let you play for $12.”

Other than his Thespian adven-tures, Dr. Winnick is mostfondly remembered for his greatsense of humor and dramaticflair. One funny story that manymay have heard is that someyears ago his car was stolen.After it was recovered, he foundsome sneakers in the back thatwere not his. He was thencontacted by the thief whoasked him to return the sneakersto him. This legend has beenfondly retold over the years asone of those bizarre incidentsthat “could only happen toJack!” Many students rememberother stories about Dr. Winnickand his adventurous personalitythat have evolved into their owntype of urban legends. Over theyears, he has reportedly cut ablock of sodium with a saw andinhaled hydrogen gas to alter hisvoice (as with helium) so thathe’d speak like a chipmunk.Who knows which of theseevents truly happened? Whathis former students do know isthat Dr. Winnick was not onlyan entertainer in the theatre, butalso in the classroom, and heused this talent to inspire hisstudents and enhance theirlearning experience.

Dr. A.H.P. SkellandDr. Skelland discovered chemicalengineering on the silver screen.As odd as that may sound, hehas always sworn that it is thetruth. While attending highschool in his home countryof England, he knew he had tochoose a career, and when hewatched the movie Boomtownstaring Clark Gable, SpencerTracy and Heidi Lamar, he knewthat he had found his calling.

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He fell in love with the lifestyleportrayed on the screen of rip-roaring, living it up on an oilfield during the day and a lifeon the town at night. Herecalls thinking at the time,“Now that’s the life, that’s whatI want to do!” So by way ofHollywood glamour, he was ledto the oil industry.

Fortunately, the nearby Univer-sity of Birmingham had adepartment for oil engineeringand refining and Dr. Skellandenrolled. The program’s namewas changed while he was stilla student so he graduated in1952 with a Ph.D. in chemicalengineering rather than oilengineering. After graduation,he soon discovered that thename was not the only thingthat was different than in themovies!

After graduation, he workedfor Proctor and Gamble infactory production and thenresearch and development. He

later accepted an offer to travel4,000 miles from his home toteach on the faculty of the Illi-nois Institute in Chicago.Later, he also taught at NotreDame, spent ten years teachingat the University of Kentuckyand then joined the faculty ofthe Rio de Janeiro University inBrazil before coming to Geor-gia Tech, where he taught thelast twenty-three years of his43-year teaching career.

Dr. Skelland reports that hisfavorite part of retirement ishaving escaped the “tyranny ofthe alarm clock.” He loves towake up whenever he happensto wake up, go out for lunch,read, go to movies and go todinner. He has maintained hismembership in various clubs,including a black tiegastronome society. Dr. Skel-land may also return toEngland this summer for ahigh school reunion and visitwith friends that he hasn’t seensince he was 17 years old.

According to Dr. Skelland, hisother plans are essentially to“avoid structured life, includinga strict avoidance of trailingaround others on a golfcourse.” He says to “leave thatto people who cannot think ofanything else to do. . . !”

Most everyone who knew Dr.Skelland during his time atGeorgia Tech remembers hishilarious stories and outrageousBritish sense of humor. Dr.Jude Sommerfeld shared someof his favorite memories:

1. “I asked him once what hethought about iced tea. Hetold me that he didn’t really likeit, because back in his oldcountry (England), when thetea got that cold they simplythrew it out and brewed a newbatch.”

2. “I also asked him one daywhen we were at a Mexicanrestaurant what he thought offrijoles (or refried beans). Hereplied that he felt that theywere OK, but he did wonderwhy those blokes couldn’t getthem right the first time.”

RETIREMENT contd. from page 7

STANCELL contd. from cover

ChE is excited to announce the next

Alumni Reception held in conjunction

with the AIChE Convention.

This year’s event will be in Indianapolis in November.

Watch your mailbox for all the details.

Tech five years ago, Stancell honed his leadership skillsduring a 30-year tenure atMobil, where he served as vicepresident of exploration andproduction. He earned hisdoctorate in chemical engineer-ing at MIT and was elected tothe National Academy of Engi-neering in 1997.

Having already included leader-ship lessons in some of hisown classes, Professor Stancellwill work on developing anelective course in servant lead-ership, which will be offerednext fall. He is also working toimbed leadership componentsinto existing courses involving90 percent of Georgia Tech’sundergraduates.

According to Wilcox, Stancell’sconviction and creativity make

him the perfect choice to headup the initiative. “Anyone whobelieves so strongly that leader-ship education is important forundergraduates and is creativeenough to have taught leader-ship within thermodynamicswould be my choice for thischair,” said Wilcox. Stancellsays he’s ready for the job, “I’mgoing to be putting a lot ofenergy into launching theprogram, with a lot of helpfrom the faculty and the otherdepartments.”

Tech’s initiative is designed toteach students the skills ofservant leadership, a style whichdiffers from the hierarchicalcommand and control style ofthe past by emphasizing collab-oration and respect betweenleaders and others in the organization.

The initiative is concentratingon teaching students six skillsand characteristics they musthave in order to be a goodleader: vision, personal integrity,a service orientation, effectivecommunication skills, self-awareness and the ability towork in teams made up ofdiverse individuals.

While some of these character-istics may seem self-evident,others are not. “Communica-tion is more than just beingable to deliver a good speech,”explained Stancell. “Part of itis listening and sharing infor-mation. You make everyonemore effective when they havethe latest information.”

Having an orientation towardserving others is also key to theservant leadership style, said

Stancell. “Servant leadership issupporting people, nurturingand developing people in theorganization. You listen tothem, participate with them and encourage ideas. Yourorganization will grow as aresult of your having a servantleadership style. I have seen it.It’s terrific.”

Even though not every studentwill end up as a vice presidentof a major corporation, Stancellbelieves all of them will benefitby understanding leadershipskills. It’s not enough forstudents to just understandtheir major anymore. “Therehave been too many situationswhere I saw bright people whodidn’t meet their full potentialbecause they didn’t have aninkling of these skills,” he said.

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In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of GeorgiaTech Chemical Engineering graduate C.J. “Pete” Silas, The PhillipsPetroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of ChemicalEngineering to develop the Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” SilasProgram in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership and quality,founded on the basics of strong communication skills and profes-sionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineeringeducation. This program spotlights the importance of ethics andleadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that haveethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integratedinto the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed inan annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethi-cists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.

The Lecturer

The fall 2001 lecture, entitled “Ethics in Law and Business: Gone withthe Wind or Alive and Well?,” was delivered by William G. Paul, formerpresident of the American Bar Association and attorney with the Okla-homa City law firm Crowe & Dunlevy.

Mr. Paul’s impressive law career and his focus on legal ethics madehim the ideal choice for the 2001 lecturer. He joined Crowe &Dunlevy for a second time in 1996 after having served as senior vicepresident and general counsel of Phillips Petroleum Company for11 years. Before joining Phillips Petroleum in 1985, Paul had beenwith Crowe & Dunlevy since 1957. He has long been active in theABA, serving on the Board of Governors since 1995. He has beena member of the policy-making House of Delegates for 21 years,from 1975-77 and then again from 1979-98. He was the first chairof the ABA Committee on Research about the Future of the LegalProfession (1995-97). He also chaired the Coalition for Justice.

Among other honors, Mr. Paul is apast president of the NationalConference of Bar Presidents, apast president of the OklahomaBar Association, and is a memberof the board of directors of TheAmerican Bar Foundation.

The Class

In addition to organizing theEthics Symposium, Dr. TimothyWick has developed an upper divi-sion course entitled EngineeringEthics. The purpose of thecourse is to increase students’awareness of social, leadership and ethical issues related to profes-sional engineering practice. Toward this goal, the course focuses onengineers’ responsibilities to their employer, clients, the public,themselves, government and the environment. Specific topicsaddress risk, safety and health; informed consent; conflict of inter-est; confidentiality; dissent; loyalty; expert witnessing; liability;ownership; and honesty. An analytical framework that includes criti-cal thinking, quantitative risk/benefit analysis and strategies for allo-cation of resources is developed to address moral problems andethical issues. These and related concepts are explored throughanalysis of engineering problems, including quantitative engineeringcalculations and qualitative discussions of the ethical, leadership,and moral issues associated with each problem. Here, a case-studybased approach to analysis of ethics problems and development ofsolutions is employed.

William Paul Delivers the 2001 Lecture for the Phillips PetroleumC.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership

ChE Celebrates the Beginning of the Next 100 Years

Attorney William G. Paul

This year marks the beginning ofthe second century of the studyof Chemical Engineering atGeorgia Tech. We will be high-lighting history and looking tothe future in our 2002 editionsof ChE News.

Chemical Engineering at Tech: 1901-1950

Henderson L. Ward earned hisB.S.ChE in 1948, M.S.ChE in1952, and Ph.D in 1953, all fromthe School of Chemical Engineeringat Georgia Tech. Dr. Ward retiredfrom the ChE faculty in 1984, aftera long and respected teaching career.

He maintains an office in the Bunger-Henry building while he writes ahistory of the School, at the request ofChair Ron Rousseau. Below Dr.Ward highlights the department’sfounding, changes in the coursework,and housing adjustments for the grow-ing department from 1901-1950.

The School of Chemical Engi-neering started on April 30,1901 when Georgia Tech found-ing faculty member WilliamHenry Emerson persuaded thestate legislature to set up theDepartment of EngineeringChemistry. Emerson, whoreceived his Ph.D. in Chemistryin 1886 from Johns Hopkins

University, served as the Depart-ment’s first Chair and wasknown to students as “Big Doc.”

The 1900-1901 school catalogueannounced the special course ofstudy in engineering chemistrywith two main purposes: “togive the student a broad founda-tion in general and theoreticalchemistry so that in his futurework new problems may be metintelligently and solved,” and “togive [the student] special trainingin those branches of Chemistrywhich have been most generallyapplied industrially, so that hemay be immediately useful.”The students were all male, and

they could find good room andboard near campus for $10-$15weekly.

The department was housed inTech Tower from 1901 to 1906.Lyman Hall, a graduate of WestPoint, succeeded Emerson ashead of the department andoversaw the construction of thechemistry building completed in1906. Dr. Hall died soon after,and the building was named forhim, Lyman Hall (Hall).

At that time, students studiedEnglish, German, and mechani-cal drawing in addition to their Continued on back cover

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1959Dr. W. John Lee was namedto receive the 2002 MineralIndustry Education Awardfrom The American Instituteof Mining, Metallurgical andPetroleum Engineers. Lee is aprofessor and holder of thePeterson chair in the HaroldVance Department of Petro-leum Engineering at TexasA&M University. He earned allof his ChE degrees from Tech,and has been described as a“world-class scholar.”

1963Dr. Thomas J. Malone waspresented with the prestigiousMilliken Medal of QualityAward from the South CarolinaQuality Forum. Governor JimHodges made the presentation.The award is given every yearby the Quality Forum to recog-nize South Carolinians ofvision, who have demonstratedleadership, innovation, andoutstanding achievement in theimplementation of qualitysystems in their organizations.Malone is president & chiefoperating officer of Milliken &Company. Malone earned hisPh.D. in ChE from Tech.

1966Louis J. Rupnik has joinedthe Board of Directors of ONTechnology Corporation, aleading provider of remotesoftware delivery, lifecyclemanagement and disasterrecovery solutions. Rupnikmost recently founded TopLineLLC, a strategy and marketingconsulting firm. He earned hisB.S. in ChE from Tech.

1975W. Michael Hulse has beennamed President of MurphyOil USA, Inc. Hulse willassume responsibility for all

U.S. based downstream activi-ties. He most recently servedas president of the company’sU.K. downstream subsidiary.He joined the company in1990.

1983Steven (Steve) S. Coxreceived his doctorate in CivilEngineering from VirginiaTech in May 2001. He lives inBlacksburg, Virginia and is nowa faculty member in theDepartment of Civil and Envi-ronmental Engineering.

1986Edward G. Cape has joinedthe Board of Directors ofThermoGenesis Corporation.Cape is a Co-Founder andGeneral Partner of theSapphire Group, a privatelyheld firm engaging in invest-ments and strategic advisoryservices for companies in thebioactive device and bioimag-ing sectors. Cape will alsoserve a one year term as Exec-utive Vice President of Corpo-rate Strategy. Cape earned B.S.and Ph.D. degrees in ChEfrom Tech.

1990Jeff Holley has worked forProcter & Gamble in Cincin-nati since graduating fromTech. He recently visitedcampus to speak to the AIChEchapter, for which he was trea-surer his senior year. His son,Tyler Jeffrey, was born on July18 and weighed 8lbs. 8oz. andmeasured 20 inches long.

OBITUARIES

1934James T. Warren ofOttumwa, Ia. died in 2001.

1935 William T. Ricks of Austin,Tex. died in May 2001. He wasretired from Ford, Bacon, andDavis Companies.

1936Frank W. Chapman ofRoswell, Ga. died December 4,2001. He was retired fromFiremans Fund America.

1940 Herring Winship, Jr. of Bain-bridge, Ga. died in November2001. He was retired fromAGL Resources, Inc.

1944 James D. Keith of SignalMountain, Tenn. died February28, 2002.

1945 Floyd W. McCollum ofEaston, Penn. died on May 15,2001. His wife writes, “He wasa heckuva engineer!”

1947 J. Eddie Lerner of Houston,Tex. died. He was retired fromFluor Corporation.

1951 John L. Cain of Nashville,Tenn. died May 28, 1999. Hewas retired from AuburnUniversity.

1952Lawrence V. Goode of AvonLake, Ohio died on October 3,2001. He was retired fromGeon Company.

James M. Phillips ofSchenectady, N.Y. died July 28,2001. He was retired fromGeneral Electric Company.

1953James T. Porter of Atlanta,Ga. died in December, 2001.He was the retired president ofPorter Carpet Mills.

1954Charles William “Bill” Davisof Charlottesville, Va. died onOctober 18, 2001. He workedfor Alcoa for many yearsbefore retiring from Unirep.He was an Air Force veteran.

1955Albert H. Twiss of Greer,S.C. died May 26, 2001. Hewas retired from his own engi-neering consulting firm Twiss,Inc. He was a veteran of theU.S. Air Force.

1957Henry C. Vaughn of NorthPalm Beach, Fla. died August11, 2001. He was employed byPratt & Whitney GovernmentEngine and Space Propulsion.

1958Richard L. Leonard ofDecatur, Ala. died June 25,2001. He was retired fromMonsanto Company.

1960Calvin S. Moore of Rich-mond, Va. died on July 30,2001. He was retired fromEthyl Corporation.

CORRECTIONIn our Spring 2001 edition, ChENews erroneously reported thedeath of alumnus James R.Tate ‘65 of Maryland. Weapologize for this error andthank Mr. Tate for his under-standing. ChE alumnus JamesH. Tate ‘73 of Roanoke, Va.died in 2000. He was employedby Hercules Incorporated.

Alumni News

he annual College ofEngineering Awardswere presented onNovember 2, 2001. The

College inducted nine graduatesinto the Hall of Fame, 29 gradu-ates into the Academy ofDistinguished EngineeringAlumni, and 14 graduates intothe Council of OutstandingYoung Engineering Alumni.

The School of Chemical Engi-neering is proud to announcethat six alumni were honored fortheir professional achievementsand were present to receive theirrecognition.

Hall of Fame

Mr. J. Kelley Williams, ChE1956: Chairman and CEO,Chemfirst Corporation• For leadership and vision inguiding the growth of Chem-First and other businesses, andfor his efforts on behalf of theSchool of Chemical Engineering.

Academy of DistinguishedEngineering Alumni

Mr. Ray W. Miller, ChE 1972:3GT Technology Director, E.I.DuPont de Nemours• For his leadership and signifi-cant contributions in researchand the development of poly-mer products, bioprocessing,and nylon.

Ms. Elizabeth B. Moore, ChE1974: Vice Pres., ParsonsCorporation • For a sustained career as aprocess engineer on a variety ofhigh profile and complexprojects, and for mentoring andadvising young women in hercommunity.

Council of OutstandingYoung Engineering Alumni

Mr. Charles T. Dickson, ChE1984: Logistics and BusinessDevelopment Manager, Exxon-Mobil Corporation

• For significant contributions inresearch and the development ofa new technology for purifyinglinear paraffins.

Mr. Steven K. Hall, ChE 1988:Vice Pres., Goldman Sachs, Co.• For sustained success in thefinancial services industry andfor service to Georgia Tech.

Dr. Barbara L. Knutson:University of Kentucky, ChEB.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1994• For outstanding research onsupercritical fluid technology,guidance of students, andcontributions as a professor ofchemical engineering.

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College of Engineering Honors Six Chemical Engineers

Outstanding ChE Students Receive Recognition

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Pictured left to right, top row: Steven K. Hall, J. Kelley Williams, Ray W.Miller, School Chair Ronald Rousseau; bottom row: Barbara L. Knutson,Elizabeth B. Moore and Charles T. Dickson.

The end of the spring semesteroffered an opportunity to honorthe School’s outstanding studentsat the annual Student AwardsBanquet, which was held onApril 24 in the Gordy Room ofthe Wardlaw Center. In additionto the 37 undergraduate studentswho received recognition forExemplary Academic Achieve-ment, the following honors werealso acknowledged:

Leadership

Sid Kossowsky, AIChE Student Chapter PresidentJustin Koushyar, Omega ChiEpsilon Student Chapter PresidentPamela Reid & MatthewSpuller, 2002 Symposium ChairsJames Broering, Alexis

Hillock, Rebecca Jones, Hens-ley Sejour, ChristopherTimmons, 2002 TeamworkAwards

Overall Accomplishments

Andrew Lebsack, EastmanChemical Engineering ScholarJoel Keene, 2001 AIChE/Donald Othmer OutstandingSophomoreMelanie Glotzbach,Albemarle Corporation/DixieGoins Outstanding Sophomore Stephen Baisch, DowOutstanding JuniorJennifer Schwerman,AIChE/Kimberly-ClarkOutstanding Senior & the Helen Grenga AwardLisa Hofler, BASF OutstandingJunior

Research Accomplishments

Brian Timberlake, 2002 Ziegler Best Paper AwardJames Broering, NationalScience Foundation FellowKaren Polizzi, National Science Foundation Fellow

Teaching

Gary Gray, 2002 OutstandingTeaching Assistant ProfessorProf. Jay Lee, 2002 Ziegler Outstanding Faculty

Sustained and ExemplaryAcademic Achievement

David Desrocher, Jie Diao,Satyanarayana Myneni,Christopher Timmons

The 14th Annual Chemical Engi-neering Graduate StudentSymposium was held on April11-12 with 23 industry represen-tatives from 19 companies inattendance. Pamela Reid andMatthew Spuller served as co-chairs for this year’s successfulevent. Shawn Davis receivedhonors in both the poster sessionand the oral presentations, takingfirst place for his presentation on“The Mechanics of Micronee-dles” and second place for hisposter on the same topic.Joseph Nguyen received firstplace for his poster on “Silica-Coated Core/Shell MagneticNanoparticle Catalysts” and DanEuhus received second place forhis presentation on “Sodium SaltFouling In Falling-Film Evapora-tors: A Pilot Study.”

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math, mechanics, and scienceclasses. The Unit Operations labwas added in 1936. The depart-ment continued to expand, andthe Emerson addition was builtonto Lyman Hall. Then in 1947,another 5,000 square feet becameavailable with a temporary addi-tion built with WWII surplusmaterials.

The year 1950 marked the firstfull-time class to graduate fromthe department since WWII. Itwas the largest class at the time,and for a while after. The firstPh.D. in Chemical Engineeringwas awarded in 1950, a turningpoint as a school already known

for its very strong undergraduateprogram began to develop gradu-ate studies.

LOOKING BACK andTHINKING AHEAD:

What are your memories of ChEat Tech? What do you seehappening in the next 100 yearsin chemical engineering?

Please share your thoughts andhelp us celebrate “The NextChEntury” with your views ofthe past and visions for thefuture. We will collect responsesfor upcoming issues of ChENews. E-mail to

jenny.daley@che.gatech.edu orsend via mail to Jenny Daley;Director of Development;School of Chemical Engineering;Georgia Tech; Atlanta, GA30332-0100.

“What do you see in the next100 years of chemical engi-neering?”

“Increase in the importance ofenvironmental considerations intraditional chemical businessesand a continuing move towardusing mathematical applicationsin coursework.”Henderson Ward, 1948

“Basic human needs don’tchange—food, shelter, cloth-ing—but chemical engineeringwill be part of all comingimprovements.”Paul H. Williams, 1960

“Adjustments in and the gradualdecline of the traditional petro-chemical business.”Ray Dunleavy, 1973

“Improvements in chemical engi-neering applications for food andwater sources: current desalina-tion processes are too energyintensive to continue.”Charlie Harbin, 1974

YEARS cont. from page 9