UPRM ChemE Grad Seminar Series

Present - 2000 | 1999 - 1990 | 1989 - 1980 | 1979 - 1972

Year	Lecturer	Presentation Title/Abstract**
1999	Mr. Jack Wehman	ELECTROSTATICS: Theoretical Basis and Practical Application for Improved Plant Safety
	Mr. Mathew R. Reyne	The Difficult Search for the Obvious
1998	Dr. John H. Seinfeld	Chemistry of the Urban Atmosphere Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Climate
	Dr. Carol K. Hall	Towards a New Equation of State for Hydrocarbons and Polymers Computer Simulation of the Competition Between Protein Folding and Aggregation
	Dr. Alice P. Gast	Polymeric Micelles: From Stars to Brushes Modeling Animal Guts as Ideal Reactors: A Kinetics and Reactor Design Project
1997	Dr. Esin Gulari	Management of Aerosols and Mists in Industrial Processes Supercritical Fluids as Polymer Processing Aids
	Dr. H. Scott Fogler	The Dissolution of Scale Inhibitors in Porous Media What’s the Problem?
	Dr. Phillip Wankat	The Case of the Mysterious Adsorption Pressure Use of McCabe-Thiele Diagrams for Distillation Research
	Dr. Matthew Tirrell	Interfacial Assembly of Macromolecular and Bioactive Amphiphiles Manipulating Individual Molecules
1996	Dr. John Villadsen	Physiological Engineering -an Intersection Between Biosciences and Engineering Bioprocesses for Bulk Chemicals: Is There a Future?
	Dr. Ross Taylor	Modeling of Multicomponent Separation Processes Maxwell, Stefan, and Mass Transfer in Multicomponent System
	Dr. Michael F. Doherty	Reactive Distillation by Design Design Better Chemical Processes by Understanding System Interactions
1995	Dr. Lorenz T. Biegler	Optimization Strategies for Complex Engineering Models Process Optimization for Modeling and Design
	Dr. Keith E. Gubbins	Molecular Simulation of Phase Equilibria and Free Energy Molecular Design of Optimal Adsorbents
	Dr. J.M. Prausnitz	Abstraction and Reality: Content and Purpose of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Molecular Thermodynamics for Chemical Process Design
1994	Dr. Warren E. Stewart	Computer-Aided Modelling of Reactive Systems Packed-Tube Reactor Modelling with Data-Based Transport Functions
	Dr. Ruben G. Carbonell	Removal of Organic Films from Solid Surfaces using Aqueous Surfactant Solutions Phospholid-Mediated Affinity Precipitation of Antibodies
1993	Dr. Angelo Lucia	Process Simulation in the Complex Domain The Geometry of Equation-Solving
	Dr. David F. Ollis	Immobilized Bacteria Growth Rate Profiles: Quantitative Comparison of E. coli Experiments and Reaction/Diffudion Model Kinetic Models for Homogeneous (UV/H2O2) and Heterogeneous (UV/Photocatalyst) Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Purification
	Dr. Charles G. Hill, Jr.	Ceramic Membrane Technology for Chemical Engineering Applications Immobilized Enzyme Reactors for Lactose Hydrolysis
1992	Dr. Kenneth B. Bischoff	A Different Application of Chemical Engineering Transport and Reaction Models Pharmacokinetics and Risk Assesment
	Dr. Daniel Crowl	Safety in the Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Curriculum Thermodynamic Availability an Improved Method for Determining the Energy of Explosion Chemical Process Safety: Historical Perspective
1991	Dr. Octave Levenspiel	Making Friends with Chemical Reactors Creation and Invention in Chemical Engineering
	Dr. Greogory Stephanopoulos	A Fixed-Bed Bioreactor with Porous Microcarriers for Cell Culture Elucidation of Biochemical Network Rigidity with Applications to Metabolic Engineering
1990	Dr. Michael Litt	Hemorheology: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications Analysis of Infant Nutritive Sucking
	Dr. Gianni Astarita	Transport Phenomena in Polymers Lumped Behavior of Multicomponent Mixtures
	Dr. Adreas Acrivos	The Boycott Effect and The Rheology of Suspensions, Variation on a Theme by Albert Einstein.
	Dr. James A. Dumesic	Microkinetic Aspects of Catalytic Phenomena
	Dr. L.E. Scriven	How do Packed Beds Work? Fluid Mechanics of Trickle-Bed Action / Chemical Engineering Evolves

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Dr. Arturo J. Hernández ChemE Associate Professor