Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
Distinguished Lecturer
Overview
The Distinguished Lecturer Program at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Utah strives to bring the most dynamic and visionary leaders of academia and industry into our lecture halls. These lecturers give our students the opportunity to sample the variety of what chemical engineering has to offer, and give our faculty the chance to exchange ideas, develop collaborations, and learn from the best in their respective fields. The most recent news on our Distinguished Lecturer Program may be found on this page (archived news is found here). The lecture schedule may be found on our department calendar, here.
Distinguished Lecturer News:
April 16, 2013
Kenneth Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adel F. Sarofim Distinguished lecture
“Chemical Engineering education: some observations and some speculations”
Previous Lectures
March 19, 2013
William B. Russel, Princeton University
“Colloidal gels: a non-equilibrium solid susceptible to collapse”
March 26, 2013
Alan Kerstein, Sandia National Laboratories (Emeritus)
“Turbulence still surprise: explorations using a one-dimensional model”
April 2, 2013Christine Schmidt, Pruitt Family Professor and Chair, University of Florida
“Engineering materials for neural regeneration”
Posted March 5th, 2013 by Travis Healey
Please join us for our Distinguished Lecturer, Bruce C. Gates, Distinguished Professor Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of California, Davis as he presents “Precisely Synthesized Supported Catalysts: Understanding Structure and Performance at the Molecular Scale”.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 in WEB L105 at 10:45‐11:35am.
For more information, please see our flyer:
Posted November 5th, 2012 by Travis Healey
Be sure to attend the upcoming upcoming Distinguished Lecturer Series on March 27, 2012, where Professor Robert K. Prud’homme will be presenting ‘Facile Production of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Difficult to Deliver Therapeutics: hydrophobic drugs, peptides, and siRNA,’ in room WEB L104 starting at 10:45am. Professor Robert K. Prud’homme is a professor at the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
For more information, read: DLS #4: Robert K Prud’homme
Posted March 22nd, 2012 by Travis Healey
November 1, 2011, Room WEB L105
Making “Clean Coal” a Reality,
Reginald E. Mitchell,
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
January 31*, 2012, Room WEB L104
Can Basic Research Really Stimulate Innovation,
Thomas W. Peterson,
Assistant Director – Engineering Directorate,
National Science Foundation,Washington, DC
February 21, 2012, Room WEB L104
Identifying How Composition and Structure Define the Activity and Selectivity of a Catalyst,
Alexis T. Bell,
Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry,
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, CA
March 27, 2012, Room WEB L104
Facile Production of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Difficult to Deliver Therapeutics: Hydrophobic drugs, peptides, and SiRNA,
Robert K. Prud’homme,
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Posted September 16th, 2011 by Travis Healey
