Resume

Educational Background

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering received August 1986. Dissertation: Vapor Liquid Equilibria of n Pentane Ethanol Acetone and its Constituent Binary Systems.

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering received August 1983. Thesis: Saturated Liquid Densities of Polar and Nonpolar Substances.

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH.
Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering received
August 1981. Thesis: Vortex Tube as a Gas Species Separator

The Thodos group at Northwestern, 1985

 

Professional Experience

University of South Florida, Professor (2002-present)

University of South Florida, Associate Professor (1992 - 2002).
Tenure granted May, 1992.

University of South Florida, Assistant Professor (1987 -1992)

University of South Florida, Visiting Assistant Professor (1986 -1987)

 

Awards and Honors

Teacher of the Year Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Florida, 1992 - 93.

Teaching Excellence Award USF College of Engineering
University of South Florida, 1993 - 94

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award Board of Regents
and the University of South Florida, 1993 - 94

Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1995.

Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award University of South Florida, 2003.

Undergraduate Advising award, 2003

 

Teacher of the Year - Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2007-08.

Teacher of the Year - Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2009-10.

Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award, University of South Florida, 2012.

Krivanek award, 2012

University and Departmental Service (only multi-year services are shown)

Undergraduate Advisor –Chemical Engineering Department, 2001 - present
Member of General Education Council, USF, 2005 - 2009
Faculty Governance Committee, College of Engineering 2002 - 2005 (Chair, 2005)
Chemical Engineering Honor Society Faculty Advisor, 1995 - 2001.
AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor, 1997 – 2001
Engineering College Council Advisor, 1989 - 1997
Graduate Program Coordinator, Chemical Engineering, 1988 - 1990

 

Graduate Students Directed

Oh, S K "Application of the Group Contribution Concept to the Kihara Potential for the Estimation of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties", Master of Science, 1989

Gonzalez, C. "Generalized Expressions for Temperature Dependent Kihara Parameters", Master of Science, 1989.

Pradhan, A. "Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Ethanol Heptane Propanol and Ethanol Heptane Isopropanol at 303.15 K", Master of Science, 1991.

Schmidt, C. "An Association Model for Thermodynamic Properties of Mixtures that Contain Alcohols", Master of Science (not completed).

Rhodes, J. "P-x Data for Seven n-Heptane+ Pentanol Isomer Systems at 303.15 K", Master of Science, 1996.

Griffin, T. "Construction of a Kay Tube Apparatus" Master of Science, 1999.

Oh, S K "Thermodynamics of Nonvolatile Electrolytes in Mixed Solvents", Doctor of Philosophy, 1993.

Pradhan, A. "Computer Simulations of Alcohol Systems", Doctor of Philosophy, 1998. (Co director).

Kenty, K. "Roadside Study of NO/NO2 Transformations", Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 (Co-Director).

Pathare, S. "Total Vapor Pressure Measurements for 2-Ethoxyethanol with Carbon Tetrachloride, Chloroform, and Dichloromethane at 303.15 K", Master of Science, 2004.

Calderon, S. "Organic Nitrogen Deposition to Tampa Bay", Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 (Co-Director).

With some students in Chemical Engineering Laboratory II.

 

Undergraduate Research Projects Directed

Sandra Pettit, Ann Wong, "Heat Rate of Power Generating Units"

Curt Griffen, "Construction of a VLE Apparatus"

Craig Williams, "Calculation of Solubility from VLE Data"

H. Lee Nigg, "Design of a Bench Scale Distillation Column"

Jay Hopkins, "Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Chloroform Acetone Toluene"

Carlos Camero, "Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Chloroform Acetone-2 Butanone"

Dimensio Barton, "Measurement of Excess Volumes".

Kevin Mara, " Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Propanol+Pentanol Systems

Jay L. Reimers, "Vapor Liquid Equilibria of n Pentane Methanol Ethanol"

Susanna Thomas, "Vapor Liquid Equilibria of n Pentane Methanol 2 Butanol"

Benjamin Valdieso, "Instrumentation of a P V T Apparatus"

Saad Al-Saad, "Vapor-Liquid Equilibria of Benzene and Toluene with 1- and 2-Propanol"

Venu Varanasi, "Comparison of Kretschmer-Wiebe and Mobile Order Solution Models"

Patrick Flanders, "Vapor-Liquid Equilibria of n-Heptane with1-Butanol and with 2-Butanol"

Mohammed Abutayeh, "Development of TKSolver Program for the Lee-Kessler Method"

Maria Schmidt, "TKSolver version of the Steam Tables"

Michael Lazzaroni, "Association model for aromatic-alcohol systems"

Amie DeBord, "VLE of Alcohol + Ethoxyethanol Systems"

Nathan Alderson, "VLE of Ester + Ethoxyethanol Systems"

Jennifer West, "New Sensor for Deposition Flux Measurements"

Sherin Peter, Simulation of NO/NO2 Transformations in Vehicle Exhaust.

Adrian Brown, "New Sensor for Deposition Flux Measurements"

 

Pumpkin contest entry. Purported by

the undergraduate student carvers

to be S.W. Campbell