Stanford University E N G I N E E R I N G Chemical Engineering Stanford, CA 94305-5025
CHAITAN KHOSLA School of Engineering STANFORD Wells H. Hauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor Keck, Room 337 CHEMI CAL Chair, Department of Stanford University E n g i n e e r i n G Chemical Engineering Stanford, CA 94305-5025 Fall 2010 Dear Chemical Engineering Alumni and Friends, As the new academic year begins, I’d like to tell you about some of the significant events in the Stanford Department of Chemical Engineering over the past year. Our 50th Birthday Party On May 11, at this year’s Mason Lectures, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Stanford Department of Chemical Engineering. And what a celebration it was! Special thanks to Gerry Fuller, Pam Juanes, and a core group of alumni including John Richardson, Eric Lutkin, Carol Fisher, and Lisa Hwang for making the event a huge success. What started as a dream in the brain of the late Professor David Mason half a century ago has now evolved into a department with 15 active faculty, approximately 75 undergraduate majors, more than 100 graduate students, and more than 20 postdoctoral researchers. Last year alone, students and faculty in the department collectively published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in the primary literature. More than a dozen U.S. patents were awarded to researchers in the department. And somehow, if you ask any student or faculty member, they’ll shrug their shoulders and say that we’re only just getting started. Much has changed in the past 50 years, but some things remain the same. Foremost among the constants are our shared passion for teaching and learning and our unshakeable confidence that as long as Stanford chemical engineers remain well schooled in the foundational sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, and as long as they are adequately introduced to the awesome conceptual and practical power of the preparative, analytical, and modeling tools that we call chemical engineering, good things will continue to happen.
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