Education
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1983
M.S. Chemical
Engineering, Michigan State University, 1985
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering,
Michigan State University, 1989
Employment
Research Engineer, General Motors Research Laboratories, 1985
Assistant
Professor, Oregon State University, 1989-1995
Associate Professor, Oregon
State University, 1995-present
Current Courses
CHE 212, Energy Balances
ENGR 333, Fundamentals of Mass Transfer
CHE 411, Mass Transfer Operations
CHE 520, Mass Transfer (Graduate)
Former Courses
CHE 102, Chemical Engineering Computations
CHE 414, Chemical Engineering
Laboratory I
CHE 415, Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
CHE 525, Chemical Engineering
Analysis I (Modeling)
CHE 527, Chemical Engineering Analysis III (Numerical
Methods)
CHE 542, Biochemical Reaction Engineering
- Bioprocess engineering, with emphasis on marine biotechnology
- Environmental remediation, focusing on marine environmental biotechnology
and development of bioadsorbents for removal of metal ions from waste
water
- Biomass conversion processes, focusing on conversion of glucose
to chemicals and fuels
- Biological synthesis of nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors
- Uptake and metabolism of explosive compounds and polyaromatic hydrocarbons
by tissue cultures of marine seaweeds
- Production of bioactive secondary metabolites by cell and tissue
cultures of marine macroalgae in photobioreactor systems
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