Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Faculty

• Douglas W. Bousfield
  Ph.D. (California at Berkeley, 1986)

Professor. Fluid mechanics, rheology, numerical methods, coating processes.

• Robert M. Bowie
  M.D. (Medical College of Virginia, 1992)

Professor of Practice. Long distance medicine, rural medicine, remote search and rescue, UAVs and sensor use in assessing and finding lost and missing persons, telemedicine in search and rescue, cold injury frostbite and hypothermia.

• Albert Co
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1979)

Associate Professor. Polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, transport phenomena, applied numerical methods.

• William J. DeSisto
  Ph.D. (Brown University, 1989)

Professor. Inorganic membrane synthesis and characterization, application of chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition to membrane synthesis, filtration for microdevices, and selective adsorption materials synthesis and characterization.

• Adriaan R. P. van Heiningen
  Ph.D. (McGill, 1982)

J. Larcom Ober Professor of Chemical Engineering. Fundamental chemical engineering aspects of wood pulping, pulp bleaching, and recovery of waste pulping chemicals. “Integrated Forest Products BioRefinery” which produces bio-energy and biomaterials besides pulp, paper and wood products.

• Caitlin Howell
  Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011)

Assistant Professor. Biological interfaces, bacterial biofilm growth and control, surface-mediated tissue engineering, dynamic materials design.

• John J. Hwalek
  Ph.D. (Illinois, 1982)

Associate Professor. Process information systems, heat transfer.

• Andre Khalil
  Ph.D. ( Universite Laval, 2004)

Associate Professor.

• Michael D. Mason
  Ph.D. (California at Santa Barbara, 2000)

Professor.  Photophysics of nanoparticles and molecular nanoprobes, single molecule imaging, time-resolved single photon spectroscopic imaging techniques.

• David J. Neivandt
  Ph.D. (University of Melbourne, 1999)

Professor. Determination of the orientation and conformation of interfacial species, surface spectroscopies/microscopies.

• Hemant P. Pendse
  Ph.D. (Syracuse, 1980)

Professor and Department Chair. Sensor development, colloid systems, particulate and multiphase processes, pulp and paper manufacture.

• Thomas J. Schwartz
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 2015)

Assistant Professor. Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics, in situ spectroscopy, biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals.

• Karissa Tilbury
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 2015)

Assistant Professor. Extracellular matrix remodeling, cellular metabolism, non-linear microscopy techniques: second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, STEM education.

• G. Peter van Walsum
  Ph.D. (Dartmouth College, 1998)

Associate Professor. Biomass processing, biorefining, renewable energy, fuels and chemicals, process engineering.

• Sara L. Walton
  Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2011)

Lecturer.

• Lisa Weeks
  Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2017)

Lecturer. Biomedical engineering, transport phenomena.

• M. Clayton Wheeler
  Ph.D. (University of Texas – Austin, 1997)

Professor. Biofuels, catalysis.

Faculty Emeriti

• Joseph M. Genco
  Ph.D. (Ohio State, 1965)

Professor Emeritus. Oxygen delignification, refining, pulping, pulp bleaching.

• Douglas M. Ruthven
  Ph.D., Sc.D. (University of Cambridge, 1966, 1988)

Professor Emeritus. Fundamentals of adsorption and adsorption processes.

Cooperating Faculty

• Barbara J. W. Cole
  Ph.D. (Washington, 1986)

Professor of Chemistry.

• Douglas J. Gardner
  Ph.D. (Mississippi State, 1985)

Associate Professor of Wood Science and Technology.

• Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak
  Ph.D. (Washington State University, 2011)

Assistant Professor of Food Processing.

• Stephen M. Shaler
  Ph.D. (Penn State, 1986)

Professor of Wood Science and Technology and Forest Engineering.

• Rosemary Smith
  Ph.D. Bioengineering (University of Utah, 1981)

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Adjunct Faculty

• Gregory Campbell
  Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1966)

• Rod Chelberg
  M.D. (Minneapolis, 1988)

• Ian D. Dickey
  M.D., F.R.C.S.C.

• Sean Ireland
  Verso Paper Corporation