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About the Authors| Steven E. LeBlanc is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and professor of chemical engineering at the University of Toledo. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty at the University of Toledo in1980. He served as the department chair for the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering from 1993-2003, when he became an Associate Dean in the College of Engineering.
Dr. LeBlanc’s industrial experience includes power plant process system design and review for Toledo Edison Company (now a division of First Energy). He has taught the Process Dynamics and Control course numerous times, and was responsible for a major revamp of laboratory activities associated with the course.
He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. He has served as an ABET chemical engineering program evaluator for AIChE since 1998. He chaired the national ASEE Chemical Engineering Education Division, and co-chaired the 2007 ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School for Faculty. He co-authored and judged the 1992 AIChE Senior Design Project competition. He is also co-author of a textbook on Strategies for Creative Problem Solving with H. Scott Fogler of the University of Michigan.
Donald R. Coughanowr is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Drexel University. In 1991 he wrote the second edition of Process Systems Analysis and Control which contained many changes and new topics in order to bring the book up to date at the time of publication. He received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1956, an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951, and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1949. He joined the faculty at Drexel University in 1967 as department head, a position he held until 1988. Before going to Drexel, he was a faculty member of the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University for eleven years.
At Drexel and Purdue he taught a wide variety of courses, which include material and energy balances, thermodynamics, unit operations, transport phenomena, petroleum refinery engineering, environmental engineering, chemical engineering laboratory, applied mathematics, and process dynamics and control. At Purdue, he developed a new course and laboratory in process control and collaborated with Dr. Lowell B. Koppel on the writing of the first edition of Process Systems Analysis and Control.
His research interests included environmental engineering, diffusion with chemical reaction, and process dynamics and control. Much of his research in control emphasized the development and evaluation of new control algorithms for the processes that cannot be controlled easily by conventional control; some of the areas investigated were time-optimal control, adaptive pH control, direct digital control, and batch control of fermentors. He reported on his research in numerous publications and received support for research projects from the N.S.F. and industry. He spent sabbatical leaves teaching and writing at Case-Western Reserve University, the Swiss Federal Institute, the University of Canterbury, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland, and Lehigh University.
Dr. Coughanowr’s industrial experience included process design and pilot plant at Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) and summer employment at Electronic Associates and Dow Chemical Company.
He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has served the AIChE by participating in accreditation visits to departments of chemical engineering for ABET and by chairing sessions of the Department Heads Forum at the annual meetings of AIChE. |
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