Chemical Engineering Newsletter • School of Chemical Engineering • Fall 2002 • Issue 1 2002 • Issue • Fall • School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Purdue
– Watch the progress of the ChE addition construction in real time at http://chmecam3.ecn.purdue.edu/view/view.shtml Coverage of the groundbreaking begins on page 3. Message From The Head...... 2-3
ChE Addition Groundbreaking ...... 3 CONTENTS Chemical Engineering DEA Winners...... 4
Outstanding Chemical Engineer’s Award Winners ...... 5
Faculty Achievements ...... 6-8
Student Honors...... 9
2002 Alumni News ...... 10-14
Professor Kessler’s Retirement...... 15
HEAD’S GREETING Welcome, Dear Chemical Engineering Alumni and Friends, We have broken ground! The School of Chemical Engineering is beginning construction on the Addition. Soon, our students and faculty will have new classrooms, new instructional and research laboratories, and new spaces for team meetings and discussion groups. This is the first comprehensive facilities improvement for Chemical Engineering since the building was built more than 60 years ago. It will double the School’s physical facilities. We couldn’t be more pleased! To all alumni and friends, a heartfelt thank you! On Saturday, September 28, the School held groundbreaking ceremonies attended by more than 250 alumni and friends. We honored all participants and announced plans to bgin construction before the end of October. Martin Jischke, Purdue University President, and Linda Katehi, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, joined our celebration. Many factors contribute to the School’s successful capital construction and expansion project, including; • Robert Forney and Marilyn Glenn Forney, both BSChE ’47, as lead donors, contributed $10 Million to the facilities project. • The Capital Campaign Committee including Donald Orr, BSChE ’61, committee chairman; Richard Grabham, BSChE ’70; Philip Krug, BSChE ’52; David Rea, BSChE ’62; James Schorr, BSChE ’54; Gerald Skidmore, BSChE ’54; William Smith, BSChE ’69; and William Wishlinski, BSChE ’68, worked diligently and tirelessly for more than two years to ensure a successful capital campaign, ChE: Champions of Excellence. • Alumni, friends, students and faculty provided the funds to build the Addition, gave of their time to review plans and offer suggestions to improve the design, and provided enthusiasm and encouragement for the dream all of us have of providing new and improved teaching and research facilities for future generations of chemical engineering students and faculty. Now, we are building for the future. Exciting features of the Addition include new classrooms that are fully IT-equipped and will allow chemical engineering students and faculty to incorporate new technologies and interactive learning methods in ChE classes. Fundamentals and Advanced instructional laboratories
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2 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 3 ChE Groundbreaking Celebration
Chemical Engineering alumni, CHE GROUNDBREAKING faculty, students and friends celebrated a commemorative groundbreaking celebration for the ChE Addition on September 28, 2002.
G. V. Reklaitis, Robert C. & Marilyn G. Forney, and Martin C. Jischke
Student members of AIChE participate in the groundbreaking
(Continued from page 2) will offer opportunities for students to improve their physical intuition about chemical engineering phenomena as they improve their laboratory expertise. Research laboratories with state-of-the-art-facilities for faculty in emerging technology areas such as bioengineering and nanotechnology and in core chemical engineering technologies such as reaction engineering and catalysis will encourage leading-edge research. It is an exciting time for ChE students and faculty as they plan for the future. As a result of the critically important fi nancial assistance from our alumni and friends, the fi rst phase of the expansion and renovation project is moving forward. As construction begins, our next step is to refurbish the existing CHME building and add scientifi c equipment and laboratory instrumentation to complete the creation of a chemical engineering learning environment that fully integrates the existing CHME building and the Addition. We are very pleased to report that we are halfway towards the goal of raising the $5 million required for this second phase of the project. We deeply appreciate the enthusiastic response we have received from alumni, friends, and corporate and foundation partners as we shared our message about the capital expansion project with you over the past two years. Everyone we spoke with expressed enthusiasm and encouragement. Thank you for your support. We are very pleased to recognize our chemical engineering alumni and friends as ChE: Champions of Excellence.
With warm regards,
G. V. Reklaitis Professor and Head
2 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 3 Words of Wisdom from ChE Distinguished Engineering Alumni
Robert H. Buckman (BS ’59) 2001 DEA WINNERS Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors Bulab Holdings Inc. “I have always been interested in building things. Absolutely enjoyed planning and construction from the time I was a little boy. Because I had the ability to visualize plans in three dimensions, I found myself inter- preting blueprints for my father even at a very young age. Since we had a chemical business, I chose chemical engineering.” “The greatest influence on my success has been my faith in the goodness of people. People will do the most unusual things for you, if you just open up windows of opportunity for them and trust them. This faith in people allowed me to move from a strict top-down command and control structure and management style to a networked organization operat- ing on a global basis. It was what our people did that made our success possible.”
Donald R. Dunner (BS ’53, Purdue; JD ’58, Georgetown) Partner: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner 2000: Named one of the 100 most influential lawyers “Patents play a critical role in the progress and well being of the whole country, if not the world. The grant of a patent for the develop- ment of new ideas not only induces inventors to generate new and useful inventions, but also plays a critical role in the innovation process in which whole industries—such as those grounded in biochemistry and the computer—are built through the willingness of investors and indus- try to bring these inventions to the marketplace based on the exclusivity provided by the patent grant.”
Jay V. Ihlenfeld (BS ’74, Purdue University; PhD ’78, University of Wisconsin) Executive Vice President Sumitomo 3M Ltd. (Japan) “The greatest skill a leader has to have today is change manage- ment—understanding how to lead for continuous change to keep you aligned with the world around you. For two years, I chaired a group of general managers that focused on change management, methods, and techniques. We looked carefully at what customers expect and how we could meet those expectations. The biggest change I was involved in was restructuring our business. We were organized around product, or material, areas. We reorganized around the key markets we serve, and since then, we have been able to achieve double-digit growth. And we have been able to get more ideas and opportunities than we can implement.”
4 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 5 2001 2001OCHE WINNERS Outstanding Chemical Engineering Award Winners
Max Downham Brian Stutts Jeff Hemmer
Max Downham (’58) is the Brian Stutts (PhD ’83) is Jeff Hemmer (’80) is vice executive director of the Inter- director, diesel technology president, supply chain, for national College of Surgeons, an and operations for Corning, the Lyondell enterprise, which organization of 10,000 surgeons Inc., where he has served from includes Lyondell Chemical Co. in more than 100 countries. manufacturing and engineering and Equistar Chemicals, LP. After a six-year stint in the Navy division to project leadership. After beginning his career with he obtained an MBA from Recognized as a process engi- Exxon Chemical in the polyeth- Wharton and began a 30-year neering leader within Corning ylene division in Baton Rouge, industrial career with such firms he has held several technology he joined Millennium Petro- as Nuclear-Chicago, G.D. Searle and project management posi- chemicals in 1996 as director & Co. and Nutrasweet®. tions in Corning Environmen- of engineering and licensing in tal Technologies. Since 1992 Cincinnati. He moved to Houston he has coordinated Corning’s in 1997 to help lead the merger engineering recruiting activities that created Equistar. at Purdue, and works closely with the Women in Engineer- ing, Grand Prix and Freshman Engineering programs.
4 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 5 Faculty Recognition 2002 NSF Career Awards Professors Corti and Hillhouse are recipients of NSF Career Awards for
FACULTY NEWS FACULTY 2002. The NSF CAREER program Professor Professor Professor Professor recognizes and supports the early career- W. Nicholas Delgass R. Neal Houze Joseph F.Pekny Nicholas A. Peppas development activities of those teacher- Professor Delgass was awarded the Shreve Prize, for Outstanding scholars who are most likely to become Teacher in Chemical Engineering. the academic leaders of the 21st century. Professor Houze received the 2001-02 Murphy Award, a university level Self-Assembling Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. Microstructures Professor Peppas received the Sigma Xi Award for Research. It is one of the two university-wide research awards from Purdue. The other is the Professor Corti will use McCoy Award, which he received last year. the NSF grant to harness complex theoretical and Three other Purdue faculty members have received both awards (Professor computational models that Brown and Professor Low of Chemistry and Professor Overhauser of simulate how tiny particles Physics). He also delivered the Plenary Lectures at the Particles 2002 in solutions arrange them- Conference in Orlando and at the 4th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Professor David S. Corti selves onto surfaces, form- Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology. ing specific microstructures that offer promise in the fabrication of Faculty Advancement electronic devices. Professor Pekny was named the director of the e-Enterprise Center, one Nanoelectronics of four centers that comprise the university’s new Discovery Park (along Professor Hillhouse will with the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center, and work toward developing Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship). a technique to produce Professor Curtis has been named Associate Dean of Engi- nanowires, wires so thin neering for Undergraduate Education. She is also Head of that their diameter is the Freshman Engineering department and a professor of Professor smaller than the width of chemical engineering. One of her goals is to bring more Hugh W. Hillhouse an electron’s wavelength. diversity to the Schools of Engineering. “One of my key first The availability of such wires objectives is to improve recruitment, particularly women Professor could enable the development of solid-state and minorities…to help improve the diversity of the fresh- Jennifer S. Curtis refrigerators and air conditioners. man engineering class. Kelly Lecturer Gerhard Ertl is the Director at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max- and Technology Foundation of Japan, Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin. He has co-edited and served on the editorial in 1992; and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry boards of several journals, is a member of several academies and societies from the Wolf Foundation, Israel in 1998. including the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina,” and is a for- He spoke on the “Dynamics of Reactions eign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. at Surfaces” and “Heterogeneous Catalysis: In 1995, Dr. Ertl was appointed vice president of the German Science Towards Atomic Understanding.” Foundation. Other awards and honors have included the Liebig Medal of the German Chemical Society in 1987; the Japan Prize of the Science
6 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 7 New Faculty New method speeds up Members discovery of materials FACULTY NEWS Professor Michael T. Harris has joined the Professors Caruthers, Delgass, department as an associate Lauterbach, Thomson and professor. Mike, and his wife of 20 years, Terry, Venkatasubramanian Professor moved here from the These five ChE professors are working on a new method Michael T. Harris department of Chemical that promises to change how companies create materi- Engineering and Institute als – using artificial intelligence and a technique that for Physical Science and Technology at simultaneously tests thousands of formulations – the University of Maryland. His degrees dramatically speeding up the discovery process.
are from Mississippi State (BS) and the “We have the capability of making a hundred Professor University of Tennessee (MS and PhD). times more catalysts and screening them in the James M. Caruthers His research interests include nanoparti- same amount of time that researchers previ- cle technology, biotemplates for synthesis ously needed to study one catalyst,” Lauter- of nanowires and nanotubes, micropat- bach said. terning via organosol and hydrosol drops Central to the method are two types and bridges, protein crystallization, and of artificial intelligence software: hybrid surface science. The owner of 10 patents, neural networks and genetic algorithms. he was also voted the AIChE Student The software mimics the thought Professor W. Nicholas Delgass Chapter – Outstanding Teacher of the processes of chemists who create new Year – May 1999. He lists as his hobby formulas for everything from rubber “producing high quality noise on musical compounds to rocket fuels, and plastic instruments.” materials to snack foods. The research is being conducted Professor Hugh W. through a new Center for Integrated Hillhouse has degrees Professor Materials-To-Product Design, headed Jochen Lauterbach in chemical engineer- by Caruthers, which works with indus- ing (BS) from Clemson, try to speed the process of making prod- Washington (MS), and ucts from newly discovered materials. Professor Massachusetts (PhD), In research with one company, engi- Hugh W. Hillhouse along with a master’s in neers using the method took about 30 physics (University Mas- minutes to find a new material that would Professor sachusetts). His research interests include have taken three months with conventional Kendal T. Thomson colloidal and molecular self-assembly, techniques, Caruthers said. nanostructured materials, thermoelectric “As far as we can tell, this is the first and only phenomena, and facilitated ion transport. center of its kind in the United States,” said In 2001 he received an NSF Interna- Venkatasubramanian, associate director of the tional Research Fellowship, and in 2002 new center. “There is no other place in a university the NSF CAREER Award. environment that is taking this kind of perspective, going all the way from molecular level modeling to final Professor Venkat property design and then having a center dedicated to this.” Venkatasubramanian The center has received $1.4 million in seed funding from the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, administered by the state of Indiana. The research also is funded by the National Science Foundation and private industry.
6 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 7 Three of Professor Albright’s former students in the news FACULTY NEWS FACULTY
Professor Tse-Chuan Chou (PhD, ’75) is the current Director of Engineering and Promotion Center, National Science Council, Republic of China. The chief investi- gator for the research project “Molecular Imprinting of Micro-Sensing Chips” involving 18 professors, he was Professor Tse-Chuan Chou former head of the Chemical Engineering department with Mrs. Chou and then associate dean of engineering at National Cheng Kung University.
Professor James T. Cobb, Jr. (PhD, ’66) was named the Pennsylvania State Professional Engineer of the year 2001. He is Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering; Director, Energy Professor Resources Program; and Co-Director for Service, Engi- James T. Cobb Jr. neering Center for Environment and Energy.
Dr. Che-I Kao (MS ’66, PhD ’69), of Dow Chemical, received the Society of Plastics Engineers TPM&F 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award. He was honored for his important contributions to the plastics industry in the areas of polyolefi ns, polycarbonates, engineering thermo- Dr. plastic blends and emulsion polymers Che-I Kao In 1995 Dr. Kao was a recipient of the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from Purdue University. “Gone but not forgotten...” After almost 25 years of service to the department, Janet (Taylor) Jones retired as Information Processing Systems Operator V. A former student (and colleague) writes, “Janet always cared about the students. She always wanted to make sure they were taken care of whether it was for a meeting with a faculty member or having printing prob- Janet Jones lems. Janet always cared about the people she took care of, the faculty and staff in her area. When we would let her know our schedule, she was excellent about reminding us of appointments and chasing us down if we were forgetful. Janet was always diligent about her responsibilities, whether it was the alumni database or ECN accounts or typing a paper.” Janet and Bob are enjoying life on the Isle of Capri these days.
8 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 9 10th annual 2002 Senior Awards AIChE Award ...... Todd Reese STUDENT NEWS Graduate Omega Chi Epsilon ...... Margaret Horton (Bruce Wilson Award) Research Lottes Award ...... Theis Clarke PSEF...... Teresa Zakaria Symposium (Purdue Student Engineering Foundation Award) (August 2001) Posters: Junior Awards 1st place - J. Zach Hilt, “Microfabrica- 2002 tion of Biomedical Polymers for Sensor Stephen Craig Award ...... Pat Stenger Applications.” George T. Tsao Award ...... Henry Santoso 2nd place - Erika Hernandez, “Adsorp- tion and Direct Probing of Fibrinogen and Sodium Myristate at the Air / Water Graduate Awards Interface.” 2002 Alvin Chen (below left) was named the Outstanding ChE Graduate Presentations: student by the Purdue Student Engineering Foundation. 1st place - Abhijit Namjoshi, “Model- ing of Hybridoma Cells: The Cybernetic Approach to Multiplicity.”
2nd place - Alvin Chen, “Science and Technology of Drop Formation: From Making Ultra Small Drops to Understand- ing Fluid Rupture.”
3rd place - Paul Fanson, “Infrared Evi- dence for the Existence of Nitrate Species on Cu-ZSM5 During Isothermal Rate Oscillations in the Decomposition of N2O.”
Mark Byrne (above right) Scholarship received the Silver medal of the Materials Research Society (Graduate Student Award) Winner which recognizes outstanding graduate research work. He also received the Chorafas Award (given by the Chorafas Foundation to the Best Graduate (Students of 11 universities around the country). The award is a prize for NSBE the best academic and research results. The Swiss-based Chorafas Founda- Olukayode Ogundeyi, sophomore, was tion awards scientific prizes world-wide for outstanding work in the selected named the winner of a Kimberly-Clark/ fields of engineering sciences, the humanities and social sciences, medicine, National Society of Black Engineers and the natural sciences. (NSBE) scholarship for academic excel- Aaron Foss was featured in “Der Spiegel” in Germany for his protein lence. Only six were awarded nationally. work. no.35, August 27, 2001 issue. See p167 or www.spiegel.de/spiegel/ inhalt/0,1518,ausg-733,00.html, “Forscher entwickeln Insulin- Tablette für Diabetiker/Rettungstipps bei Hai-Attacken,” tranlation: “Researchers develop insulin pill for diabetics.”
8 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 9 Alumni News 2002 Alumni News 2002 1930’s 1950’s Ellis P. Owen (BS ’33, MS ’35, PhD (MetE ) ’37), A.L. Reitemeier (BS ’56, MS ’58) has published “The Little who retired in 1968 and is living in Oceanside, CA, Blue Book of Management,” a succinct, ‘get to the point’ primer writes that he’s been a world traveler on “freighters, designed for beginning and mid-level managers and first time cruise ships, planes, trains, buses, ferries, limos. Mar- supervisors. He distilled his more than 30 years of manage- ried 4 times. At 91 health slightly impaired. Plan to rial experience into a guide book for the first-time manager or ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI live rest of my life as bachelor in these beautiful surroundings. supervisor. Am a gourmet cook and still drive a ’71 VW bought in Ger- Jack B. ReVelle (‘57) is a consulting statistician (“The Wizard many.” of Odds”) with ReVelle Solutions, LLC. He writes that “after completing three careers (USAF, academia, industry), I’ve begun 1940’s a fourth career (Industrial Consulting–
10 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 11 Alumni News 2002 Alumni News 2002 1970’s 1990’s Rodney H. Sergent (’73) is vice president at Eric E. Brooks (’92) is a project engineer with Kraft Foods Chattem Chemicals in Chattanooga. in Kendallville, IN. He manages capital projects for the largest marshmallow production facility in North America. He and Thomas L. Wood (’70) is president of Valspar Sourcing Tracy had their first child (“Kyle”) in April 2001. and corporate vice president in Minneapolis. He writes ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI that “in the last six years the company has more than Karen Frederickson Burquest (’96) is an engineering supervi- tripled in size and globalized. We are currently focusing on the sor for 3M in St. Paul, MN. development and implementation of an integrated supply chain. Thomas M. Chambers, Jr. (’92) is senior process engineer Raymond E. Zbacnik (’73) is a process engineer with with Novozymes North America in Franklinton, NC. He writes Babcock & Wilcox Company in Barberton, OH. He’s listed in “I was married in Sept. 1997 and my wife and I welcomed the the 19th edition of Marquis’ “Who’s Who in the World” (see arrival of our son in October 2000.” www.marquiswhoswho.net/zbacnik). Ernest R. Davis (’92) is senior process engineer-polyethylene Michael J. Graff (MS ’79) is president of BP Polymers with with ExxonMobil in Saudi Arabia. responsibility for BP’s combined polyethylene and polypropyl- Jennifer Brunner Dunn (’99) is a graduate student at the ene businesses. Among his many memberships he serves on the University of Michigan. She writes that she and Chris Dunn Executive Committee of the Industrial Advisory Board for the were married May 27, 2001. School of Chemical Engineering. Kenyon W. Gjerde (’94) is working toward an MBA at the Rohit Khanna (’79) is vice president, Strategic Business, for Tuck School at Dartmouth. Waters Corp. in Milford, MA. John R. Judd II (’96) is a process manager for Lafarge Corp. Norman L. Koning has been appointed manufacturing in Paulding, OH. director for Safety and Security System division of 3M in St. Paul, MN. Scott McNabb (’99) is a semiconductor market engineer for Parker Hannifin Corp. in Austin. 1980’s Zen Mogri (’96) is a research engineer for Dupont in Old Andrew J. Ambrose (’87) is maintenance superintendent Hickory, TN. for ONDEO Nalco in Ellwood City, PA. Marina Miletic (’98) is a PhD candidate in chemical engi- Kyle Costa (’85, M’91) is product manager at Gerber neering at the Uuniversity of Michigan. Scientific in Muskogee, OK. Michael Miltenberger (’97) is a distributor business consul- Debra G. (Yanover) Davis (’84) is director of marketing, tant for ExxonMobil in Fairfax, VA. Publication Papers, for Specialty Minerals, Inc. in Bethlehem, PA. Josh Nerenberg (’99) is in Quality Assurance with J&F Steel William Pottratz (’83) is supervisory safety engineer with the in Middleton, Ohio. US Army Aviation and Missile Command. He received an MSE Jessica D. O’Rourke (’97) is a production engineer for Exx- in industrial engineering from University of Arkansas in May onMobil Chemical in Houston. 2001 and was elected treasurer of the System Safety Society in July. Elizabeth A. Russo (’96) is a project manager for SEMAT- Barbara A. Ricca (’80) is an environmental engineer with ECH in Austin, TX. IBM in Tucson responsible for all chemical and environmental programs at IBM Tucson’s development lab; and fire marshal Scott Seymour (’95) works for Intel in Portland, OR. responsible for fire prevention and protection. She is also presi- Scott Shelton (’94) was promoted to director, Business Devel- dent of Southern Arizona Environmental Management Society. opment for Cooper Industries. Recently she received an MS in environmental systems manage- ment from National Technological University. Majella Stevenson (’90) is public works officer with the Naval Undersea Warfare Division Keyport (Washington). She was pro- Jeffrey Rondini (’83) is president of Syskoplan Consulting in moted to lieutenant commander, US Navy as of October 2001. Waltham, MA. Julie K. Dibert Suelzer (’99) is a shift manager at Interna- tional Paper in Pineville, LA.
10 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 11 Alumni News 2002 In Memoriam Alumni News 2002 1990’s Robert Tampa (’93) is a sales engineer (metal and plastic valves) for NIBCO, Inc. He writes that he and Sandi have settled in the Seattle area and are expecting their first child. Elizabeth Kay Thompson (’99) is supply chain ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI quality engineer with Ethicon in San Angelo, TX. She writes that NEWS ALUMNI she’s working on the largest transfer in Ethicon history. She is president of the Ethicon San Angelo Toastmasters Chapter, and has earned the J & J Leadership Award.
Debera D. Wells (’90) is a senior business planning analyst for Norman W. Pruitt (BS ’48) formed Nitro- Frito Lay Inc. in Plano, TX. pen, Ltd. in 1988 to fabricate modular Cynthia (Kinsley) Zimmerman (’91) is a senior design engi- chemical plants of his design after a very neer with UOP in Des Plaines, IL. successful career in consulting as well as in upper management for companies such as Litwin Corporation and Puritan Bennett. 2000’s Later, as consultant for the latter company Elizabeth Davis is in operations management with General he developed a process for nitrous oxide that Mills in Vallejo, CA. She writes that she’s traveled through New was used by almost all plants in North Amer- Zealand and Egypt. ica. In 1990 he was named an Outstanding Adam Lawson is production supervisor for Cargill in Watkins Chemical Engineer. Glen, NY. He writes that he’s been accepted into the Syracuse University MBA program for 2002. Bryan P. Rose is a production supervisor at Cargill in Fayette- ville, NC. Alvaro Timotheo writes that he is lead start-up engineer (with Babcock & Wilcox of Atlanta) for a one-year project in Brazil that includes a diversity of actions and functions.
2001’s Brian R. Busse is a process safety engineer at Air Products and Chemicals in Allentown, PA. Dr. Harold W. Ritchey (BS ’34) was widely Greg Lembcke is a field engineer with Fluid Air, Inc. in regarded as the “father of solid-propellant Aurora, IL. rocketry.” At his retirement in 1977 he was Brock Ryan is finishing building manager with GE Plastics in chairman of the board of Thiokol Corpora- Washington, WV. tion, where he had served for 28 years. Prior to joining Thiokol he had been chief of the Alicia Toscano is studying for a PhD at the University of Nuclear Reactor Engineering Department Massachusetts. at the General Electric Hanford Works in Richland, Washington. He received an hon- orary doctorate from Purdue in 1960 and was named a Purdue Outstanding Chemical Engineer in 1993.
12 Chemical Engineering Fall 2002 Fall 2002 Chemical Engineering 13 Alumni News 2002 Alumni News 2002 In Memoriam 1920’s 1950’s John S. Bond (’26) John P. Chesick (’54) Robert J. Greischar (’59) ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI John T. Eash (’28) Howard A. McLain (’56) 1930’s Thomas R. Sparks (’58) Gabriel Baker (’34) Charles C. Todd (“59, MS ’61) Howard S. Bowen (’38) Paul E. Hamilton (’36) 1960’s Edward J. Keller (’31) Thomas H. Buller (’67) Daniel B. MacLaren (’30) Michael Musser (’61) Raymond Moses (’38) Wayne J. Svoboda (’66, MS ’67) Henry F. Nolting (’38) 1970’s Rex W. Oyler (’39) Jerome J. Schmitz (’72) John K. Park (’33) Philip P. Rector (’33) 1980’s Willia J. Resiner (’32, MS ’33) Lawrence S. Schwartz (’86) Emil M. Schafrik (’34) William R. Smith (’37) Fred Stretmater (’34) 1940’s Lloyd Berg (’42) C. Daniel Bopp, Jr. (’44) David M. Brenner (’48) Howard B. Bryan (’49) James O. Davis (’40, MS ’41) Floyd E. Demmon Jr. (’48) Richard L. Fee, Jr. (’42) Leo J. Haigerty (’44) Paul B. Hessert (’45) Albert L. Ludwig (’44) Robert J. Rudebaugh (’45) Charles L. Seely (’46) Richard A. Spraker (’41) Robert C. Thalheimer (’46)
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Fall 2002 Fall 2002 him todo.” start? I’lltellyou—Idon’tknow.Butitisatradition.Because ofourtraditions,everyoneknowswhoheisandwhatGodexpects positive andnegativeinput—itissimplytraditional,asTevye saysin recalling afavoritequoteexplainingwhywedefineseparateinputandoutputtermsintheentitybalancerather thanjustusing and skeetshooting. his extensivecollectionofvolumesonaphorisms,epigrams,and quotations.Otherhobbiesincludefl even sayhewasruthlesswhileplayingwithcolleagues!).Currently, heisindulginghislifelongloveofbooks,includingaddingto ties. Althoughadecentgolferwhenhesetshismindtoit, lifelongpassionpriortoarecenthipreplacementwastennis(some “a bloodbrothertoababoon”!Hisdrollhumorspilledover to theclassroom,thoughsomenon-alertstudentsmissedsubtle especially atstudent-facultygatherings.Thehighlightofhis sabbatical attheIUSchoolofMedicinewasbecoming(inadvertently) consumer/manufacturer conflicts. tion, and,currently,tomediationofUnitedStatesPostalServiceemployeedisputesandBetterBusinessBureauarbitrationauto mediation, andfact-findingactivities,rangingfrommediation/fact-fiinteachercontractnegotiationstofarmdebtmedia as wellexpertwitnesstestimony.Thishastakentheformofavarietyarbitration, ing aswell.He servedasthechairofundergraduatecommitteewhilecurriculumwasrestructured. tive design,andtheentertainmentindustry,tocitejustafewareas.Duringthistimeheplayedanactiveroleinchemical engineer As theheadofIDEhedevelopednewplansstudyatinterfaceengineeringwithgenetics,internationaloperations, inven 80, assistantprovost.HechairedtheUniversitySenatein1972-73andwaspresidentofPurduechapterSigmaXi, 1979-80. man EngineeringfromJanuarytoJune1992.From1978-80hewasdirectorofAcademicInformationSystemsand 1976- proving tobeeverybitaseffectivethetraditionalapproach. & DaveShow,”ChE525wastaughtinthisformatonlocaltelevisionforfiveyearsaswelltheclassroom,withformer Professors Kessler & Chao discussing ChE Groundbreaking 37 Year CareeratPurdue! Professor Kessler inhisoffice. We wishhimluckintheseendeavors duringhisretirement. In lightofhislovequotations,itisappropriatetoconclude withacommentfromhisfriendandcolleague,BobGreenkorn, Outside theclassroom,Daverevealedasideofhimselfthatextendedfromlovemusicto“hustlingmeangamepool,” Dave wasveryserviceoriented.Hehead,DivisionofInterdisciplinaryStudiesfrom1982-2000andactingheadFresh
developed aTVcoursein1976onDataAnalysis(43videosessions).Affectionatelyknownasthe“Bob He coauthoredtextbooksinbothoftheseareaswithProfessorBobGreenkorn.Thetwothemalso rating aportablehemodialyzerforuseasanartificialkidney. numerical solutionofnonlinearmodels.Heisalsoaholderseveralpatentscoveringdialysisincorpo His researchinterestsincludedtransportindispersemedia,biomedicalmodels,stochasticmodelsand Engineering in1964.Hewaspromotedtoassociateprofessor1968andfull1973. and PhD’62).AfterworkingatProcter&Gamble,DavestartedasanassistantprofessorinChemical years latertheymovedtotheUniversityofMichiganwherehecompletedgraduateschool(MS’59 MI. HeandCarolynweremarriedin1957(andhavefourchildren—Eric,Joel,LisaBeth).Two he earnedhisBSChEatPurduein1956andwenttoworkforDowChemicalCompanyMidland, He taughtanumberofcoursesatPurduewithspecialinterestinstatisticsandtransportphenomena. Professor DavidKessler Indiana andIllinoisinalternativedisputeresolution neering, foraboutthirtyyearshehasbeenactivein the SocietyofProfessionalsinDisputeResolution. American AssociationofUniversityProfessors,and the AmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineers, the AmericanSocietyofEngineeringEducation, papers, hehasbeenformanyyearsamemberof book chapters,researchpapersandconference As anescapefromthequantitativeworldofengi The authororco-authorofmorethan80books, retiredfollowinga37-yearcareeratPurdue.AnativeofAnderson,Indiana, Fiddler ontheRoof - : “Youmayask,howdidthistradition Professor Wankat welcomed by Professor Kessler y fishing,andhandgun,trap Chemical Engineering ------
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