People: Advisory Council

The department's Advisory Council is a group of distinguished industrial and academic members of the chemical engineering profession. This body provides valuable advice on the department's status and future prospects, based on periodic reviews of its research and educational programs. The Council convenes typically every two years; during the past decade, meetings took place in 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2006. At such meetings, the Council hears and discusses reports from the Chair, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Departmental Representative about the status of the department and of its graduate and undergraduate programs. Council members also meet with junior and senior faculty members, as well as graduate and undergraduate student representatives.

Advisory Council members are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty upon recommendation of the department Chair. The current members are:

Professor Harvey W. Blanch
University of California, Berkeley
Chemical Engineering Department
Berkeley, CA 94720

Dr. Richard S. Bowles III
Senior Vice President
Worldwide Quality
Schering-Plough
2000 Galloping Hill Road
Mail Stop K2-2S21
Kenilworth, NJ 07033-0530

Professor Paulette Clancy
William C. Hooey Director and Professor
School of Chemical and
  Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior Vice President
  and Chief Science and Technology Officer
E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company
DuPont Research and Development
Wilmington, DE 19880-0328

Dr. Mauricio Futran [Chair]
Vice President,
Process Research and Development
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
1 Squibb Drive
PO Box 191
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0191

Dr. Henry L. Gabelnick
Director, CONRAD
1611 North Kent Street, Suite 806
Arlington, VA 22209

Dr. Charles Goldstein
Vice President, Research
Becton Dickinson and Company
PO Box 12016
21 Davis Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2016

Dr. Ignacio E. Grossmann
Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University
  Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-2230

Dr. Carol K. Hall
Alcoa Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University
113 Riddick Engineering Laboratories
Box 7905
Raleigh, NC 27695

Dr. David H. Klipstein
President and CEO
Reaction Design
6440 Lusk Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92121

Dr. Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Uncas & Helen Whitaker Professor of
  Bioengineering and Director
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Professor Kathleen J. Stebe
The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Chemical and
   Biomolecular Engineering
Baltimore, MD 21218