Professor Emeritus
Contact
(805) 893-2821
3336 Engineering II
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
Honors:
- April 2020 Inducted into Control Process Automation Hall of Fame
- July 2018 Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate, University of California
- Sept 2012-Aug 2013 Honored for one of the most downloaded articles in Computers & Chemical Engineering Journal
- 2010 CACHE Award, ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education), Chemical Engineering Division, for contributions to computing in chemical engineering
- 2007 Purdue University Department of Chemical Engineering, Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award
- 2006 UCSB Medal (campus' highest award; with wife, Suzanne) for philanthropy and devotion to the campus
- 2004 Georgia Tech College of Engineering, Engineering Hall of Fame
- 1995 Georgia Tech College of Engineering, Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni
- 1995 Elected Chair of University of California Academic Council/Senate and Faculty Representative on UC Board of Regents
- 1994 American Statistical Association: Statistics in Chemistry Award
- 1990 Elected Chair of UCSB Academic Senate (1990-92)
- 1990 Merriam-Wiley Award by American Society for Engineering Education (Distinguished Authorship Award for best engineering textbook published in 1989): Process Dynamics and Control (co-authors D.E. Seborg and T.F. Edgar).
- 1988 Seventy-fifth Anniversary Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Education:
BS: Georgia Institute of Technology (1959)
Post-Grad Studies: Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany (1959-60)
PhD: Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (1964)
