About
Academic rank: Professor of Chemical Engineering- full-time
Degrees:
BChE Cooper Union 1958 Chemical Engineering
M.S. Lehigh University 1960 Chemical Engineering
Sc.D. MIT 1967 Chemical Engineering
Number of Years on this Faculty: 27 years
Date of original appointment: September 1985, Associate Professor
Tenure: April 1987
Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor: April 1991
Teaching experience other than at Cooper Union
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
During the ten years that I was an adjunct professor at NJIT, I averaged close to one course per semester
Patents (at Cooper Union):
1) “Rapid Beverage Cooling”; issued 9 April 1996 – U.S. Patent No. 5,505,054
Scientific and Professional Societies:
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- American Society for Engineering Education
Institutional and Professional Services (at Cooper Union):
Member of AIChE Admissions Committee (1992-2011)
Institutional (at Cooper Union):
1) Commencement Committee
2) Arranged plant trips once a semester for chemical engineering students and accompanied the students on these trips.
3) Promotion and Tenure Committee
4) Curriculum Committee
5) Department Chairmen’s Committee
6) Advisor to chemical engineering students
7) Cooper Union Administrator of the joint Cooper Union – Mt. Sinai Medical School Program
8) Enders Fellowship Awards Committee
9) Academic Standards Committee
10) Board of Directors, Cooper Union Research Foundation
11) Cooper Union Summer Research Internship Program
12) Arranged for annual Kraut lecture in Chemical Engineering
13) Dean’s Search Committee
14) Governance Revision Committee
Cooper Union Research Foundation Projects:
1) Use of the Czochralski method to grow neodymium-doped YAG crystals – 5 years
2) High vacuum Nerken leak detectors – 1 year
3) Study of the Hydrocarb Process for converting coal or biomass to methanol and carbon black – 2 years
At Cooper Union I have taught courses in thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, chemical process design, and the Unit Operations laboratory.
Masters thesis completed at Cooper Union under the supervision of Irv Brazinsky
1) The Kinetics of Sodium Perborate Oxidation of Cyclohexanone to Caprolactone
2) A Pilot Plant Design for the Integrated Gasification Process
3) A Theoretical Study of Carbon Dioxide Frost Deposition onto a Horizontal Plate Maintained at Cryogenic Temperatures
4) Numerical Analysis of Heat and Momentum Transfer in the Growth of Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Crystals from the Melt by the Czochralski Method
5) Evaluation of the Pro/II Simulation Package for Modeling Various Aspects of the Carver-Greenfield Process
6) Treatment of Bentonite Clay Contaminated with Mobil Oil 600W using the Carver Greenfield Process
7) A Kinetic Study of the Sodium Perborate Tetrahydrate Oxidation of Acetophenone to Phenyl Acetate
8) Separation of Water-oil Emulsion Using cut-floc Coagulants; A comparison study
9) Simulation of Multi-effect Evaporator System of the Carver-Greenfield Process
10) Optimization of the Carver-Greenfield Process for the Treatment of Petroleum Contaminated Soil
11) Simulation of the Biotherm Process
12) The modified Hydrocarb Process
13) Capital Cost Estimation: Using Microsoft Excel and Fortran>> Subroutines
14) An Initial Investigation of Bioreactor Performance in Batch and Continuous Operation
15) Analysis of a Three Phase Dewatering Process Algorithm
16) Determination of the Viscosity of Polyphenylene Oxide Lubricant with Graphite and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Additives for AZ31 Superplastic Forming
17) Rapid Chilling of Beverages
18) Integration of the Cooper Cooling Process with Household Refrigeration
19) Characterizing of a Bioreactor for Batch and Continuous Operation
20) Isothermal simulation of the Cooper Cooler Process for beverage production plants
21) Modifying and Refining the Stock Chiller Design to Adapt to Restaurant Industry Needs
I am currently supervising research on the Cooper Cooler Process