Distinguished Lecture Series
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 to our campus.
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.
We also sponsor the Sarofim Distinguished lectures in honor of Professor Adel Sarofim.
Past Lectures
| Name | Affiliation | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Gretar Tryggvason | Johns Hopkins University | 2020 |
| Kim Ogden | University of Arizona | 2020 |
| Larry Bool | Praxair | 2018 |
| Ted Randolph | University Colorado | 2018 |
| Richard Axelbaum | Washington U St Louis | 2018 |
| Samir Mitragotri | UC Santa Barbara | 2017 |
| Angela Violi | U. Michigan | 2017 |
| David Graves | UC Berkeley | 2016 |
| Michael Klein | U Delaware | 2016 |
| Robert Kee | Colorado School Mines | 2016 |
| Linda Abriola | Tufts | 2015 |
| Lance Lobban | U Oklahoma | 2014 |
| Margie Longo | UC Davis | 2014 |
| Alan Kerstein | Sandia National Laboratories | 2013 |
| Peter Kilpatrick | Notre Dame | 2013 |
| Clayton Radke | UC Berkeley | 2013 |
| William Russel | Princeton University | 2013 |
| Christine Schmidt | University of Florida | 2013 |
| Michael Zachariah | University of Maryland | 2013 |
| Robert Podgorney | INEL | 2013 |
| Alexis Bell | UC Berkeley | 2012 |
| Bruce Gates | University of California, Davis | 2012 |
| Thomas Peterson | National Science Foundation | 2012 |
| Robert Prud'homme | Princeton | 2012 |
| Reginald Mitchell | Stanford University | 2011 |
| Farhang Shadman | U Arizona | 2011 |
| Frances Arnold | Caltech | 2010 |
| George Homsy | University of British Columbia | 2010 |
| Kenneth Smith | MIT | 2010 |
| Eric Suuberg | Brown University | 2010 |
| Edward Cussler | University of Minnesota | 2010 |
| Hishashi (Sho) Kobayashi | Praxair | 2010 |
| Rodney Fox | Iowa State University | 2009 |
| Mikko Hupa | Abo Akademi University | 2009 |
| Arvind Varma | Purdue University | 2009 |
| Phillip Westmoreland | University of Massachussetts | 2009 |
| Kristy Anseth | University of Colorado | 2008 |
| Stacey Bent | Stanford University | 2008 |
| Pratim Biswas | Washington University in St. Louis | 2008 |
| Robert Davis | University of Colorado | 2008 |
| Carol Hall | North Carolina State University | 2008 |
| Julia Kornfield | California Institute of Technology | 2008 |
| Lars Strombergf | Chalmers University/Vattenfall | 2008 |
| Charles (Chip) Zukoski | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 2008 |
| John Brady | Caltech | 2007 |
| Anthony Dean | Colorado School of Mines | 2006 |
| James Hill | Iowa State University | 2007 |
| Jennifer Sinclair Curtis | University of Florida | 2007 |
| Thomas Edgar | University of Texas at Austin | 2007 |
| Stuart Churchill | Univ Penn | 2006 |
| Micheal Doherty | UC Santa Barbara | 2006 |
| Robert Hurt | Brown University | 2006 |
| Scott Fogler | University of Michigan | 2006 |
| Matthew Tirrell | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2006 |
| Joan Brennecke | University of Notre Dame | 2006 |
| Richard Flagan | California Institute of Technology | 2005 |
| Sung Kim | University of Utah | 2005 |
| John Mooney | Engelhard Corporation | 2005 |
| Richard Gross | Dow Chemical | 2005 |
| Buddy Ratner | University of Washington | 2004 |
| Gregory Stephanopolous | MIT | 2004 |
| Henry Foley | Penn State University | 2004 |
| Manfred Morari | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 2004 |
| Lynn Orr | Stanford University | 2003 |
| Stuart Churchill | University of Pennsylvania | 2003 |
| John Falconer | University of Colorado | |
| William Grosshandler | NIST | |
| Allan Hoffman | University of Washington | 2006 |
| Octave Levenspiel | Oregon State University | |
| Matti Maricq | Ford Motor Company | 2004 |
| Oliver Mullins | Schlumberger - Doll Research | |
| Lisa Pfefferle | Yale University | |
| Richard Quann | Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering | 2006 |
| Ljubisa Radovic | Penn State University | |
| John Seinfeld | California Institute of Technology | |
| Long Nghiem | Computer Modeling Group | 2006 |
| Terry Wall | University of Newcastle | 2006 |