Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, August 1994 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, August 1990 - May 1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, August 1986 - May 1990
Substitute Instructor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Winter 1983 - Spring 1986
Instructor, School of Engineering, Oregon State University, Spring 1985, Fall, 1984, Spring 1983
Process Engineer, Fluor E&C Corporation, Irvine, CA, October 1980 - December 1982
Associate Engineer, M.W. Kellogg Company, Wembley, England, July 1979 - August 1980
Associate Engineer, Brooke-Bond Oxo Ltd., London, England, July 1977 - September 1977
Associate Engineer, Shell Oil Company, Stanlow, England, July 1976 - September 1976 |
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| Education |
| » | Registered Professional Engineer, State of West Virginia, 1987
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| » | Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, August 1986
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| » | M.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, August 1979
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| » | B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Nottingham, England, June 1977 |
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| Research Focus Areas |
| » | Engineering Education |
| » | Energy Technologies |
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| Research Interests |
| » | particle technology
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| » | reaction engineering
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| » | polymer recycling
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| » | design education |
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| Teaching Interests |
| » | I routinely teach the senior year capstone design course, and have taught a variety of the undergraduate courses including heat transfer, separations, material and energy balances, transport phenomena, and numerical methods. I have taught graduate level courses in fluidization technology, mathematical methods and statistical process control. |
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| Special Interests |
| » | I am interested in engineering education and I am co-author of the text book "Analysis, Synthesis and Design of Chemical Processes", second edition, by R. Turton, R. C. Bailie, W. B. Whiting and J.A. Shaeiwitz, Prentice-Hall, December 2003.
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| » | I have also co-authored two book chapters in the area of coating and pharmaceutical processes:
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| » | 1. Fluidized Bed Coating and Granulation, by R. Turton, G. I. Tardos and B. J. Ennis, in Powder Technology Handbook, Noyes, published 1998.
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| » | 2. Cooling Processes and Congealing, in Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology, by R. Turton and X.X. Cheng, Marcel-Dekker, in press, Jan 2002.
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| » | I have consulted with several pharmaceutical companies and appeared in Federal Court as an expert witness. |
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| Professional Societies |
| » | American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Member
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| » | Sigma Xi, Member
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| » | Phi Kappa Phi, Member
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| » | American Society of Engineering Education
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| » | Registered Professional Engineer, State of West Virginia |
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