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Who are some notable Chemical Engineer Alumni?

Alumni of the School of Chemical Engineering in Corporate Positions

  • Joseph Coors (BChE 39) Chair (deceased), Coors Brewing
  • Ted Doan (BChE 49) Chairman (retired), Dow Chemical
  • Dick Tucker (BChE 50) President (retired), Mobil Oil Corporation
  • Marjorie Hart (BChE 51) Director, International Markets, Exxon
  • Edward Callahan (BChE 53) Vice President of Health and Safety, Allied Signal
  • Elliot Cattarulla (BChE 53) Vice President of Public Affairs (retired), Exxon
  • John Schmutz (BChE 55) Senior Vice President/Counsel, duPont
  • Roger Fisher (BChE 57) Director of Chemical Analysis, Amoco Corporation
  • Matthew Sagal (BChE 58) Vice President Business Development, AT&T Microelectronics
  • Larry Fuller (BS 61) President and CEO, Amoco Oil
  • Ken Ackley (BChE 61) President (deceased), Innovative Packaging
  • Sam Bodman (BChE 61) President, Cabot Corporation
  • Greg Crowe (BChE 62) Founder, International Envelope Co (Tyvek Envelopes)
  • Charles Lee (BChE 62) CEO, GTE Corporation
  • J. Thomas Smith (BChE 62) Director of Ceramics, GTE Laboratories
  • Peter Daley (BChE 63) Vice President of Technology, Waste Management International
  • Sam Fleming (BChE 63) President, Decision Resources, Inc
  • John Carberry (BChE 64) Director of Environmental Technology, DuPont
  • Phil Brodsky (BChE 65) Vice President for Research, Monsanto
  • Edwin Dealy (BChE 65) Director of Worldwide Business, Hercules Corporation
  • Leon Anziano (BChE 65) President and CEO (retired) Arch Chemicals
  • G. "Chip" Bettle (MEng 66) President, CBC Research, Inc
  • Marty Schwartz (BChE 66) CEO, Southwall Technologies, Inc
  • Charles Sherwood (BChE 70) Director, Research and Development, Johnson & Johnson
  • Stephen Matson (BChE 71) President, Arete Technologies
  • Charles Brown (BChE 72) Director of Manufacturing and Research, Kodak
  • Bill Welker (BChE 73) Vice President, Braun Corporation
  • Carol Nolan (BChE 73) Director of Technical Services, Immunex Corporation
  • Bruce Shutts (BChE 75) Director of Chemical Development, Schering-Plough
  • Catherine Jarett (BChE 77) Manager of Collaborations, Genetech
  • Carl Marharver (BChE 77) Vice President, Koch Refining
  • Brian Swallow (BChE '78) Vice President of Engineering, Mearl Corporation
  • Jeffrey Jensen (BChE '82) Chief Operating Officer, Eksigent Technologies
  • Ann Lee (BChE '83) Vice President, Chemical Technology and Engineering, Merck

Alumni of the School of Chemical Engineering in Academic Positions
Professors of Chemical Engineering

  • Robert Finn (BChE 42) Cornell University (emeritus)
  • Julian Smith (BChE 42) Cornell University (emeritus)
  • Edwin Lightfoot, Jr. (BChE 47) University of Wisconsin (Madison)
  • Peter Harriott (BChE 49) Cornell University
  • Henry Bungay (BChE 49) RPI
  • William Burgess (BChE 49) University of Toronto
  • John Prausnitz (BChE 50) University of California at Berkeley
  • Deran Hanesian (BChE 52) New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Alfred Engel (BChE 52) Pennsylvania State University
  • David Thomas (BChE 53) Lehigh University
  • Thomas Weber (BChE 53) State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Julian Heicklen (BChE 54) Pennsylvania State University
  • Edward Thompson (BChE 56) University of Maine
  • William Forgeng, Jr. (BChE 58) California Polytechnic University
  • Howard Greene (BChE 59) University of Akron (retired)
  • Robert Hendricks (BChE 59) Virginia Polytechnic Institute
  • Robert Merrill (BChE 60) Cornell University (deceased)
  • Max Deibert (BChE '60) Montana State University
  • Richard Franke (BChE 60) Loyola College (Baltimore)
  • Stephen Rosen (BChE 60) University of Missouri at Rolla
  • George Roberts (BChE 61) North Carolina State University
  • Ken Ackley (BChE 61) Cornell University
  • Donald Goldfarb (BChE 63) Columbia University
  • Andrew Morris (BChE 63) University of Manitoba
  • Clark Colton (BChE 64) MIT
  • Larry McIntire (BChE 66) Rice University
  • Montgomery Shaw (BChE 66) University of Connecticut
  • Jefferson Tester (BChE 66) MIT
  • Robert Cohen (BChE 68) MIT
  • Robert Langer (BChE 70) MIT
  • Mark Holtzapple (BChE 78) Texas A&M
  • Dave Allen (BChE 79) University of Texas at Austin
  • Harvey Stenger (BChE 79) Lehigh University
  • William Bentley (BChE 82) University Maryland
  • Maria Pozo Fernandez (BChE 83) Florida Institute of Technology
  • Roger Bonnecaze (BChE 85) University of Texas at Austin
  • Scott Diamond (BChE 86) University of Pennsylvania
  • Margot Vigeant (BChE 94) Bucknell University
  • Anand Asthagiri (BChE 95) California Institute of Technology
  • Peter Woolf (BChE 96) University of Michigan
  • Brian Pfleger (BChE 00) University of Wisconsin

Professors of Chemistry, Materials Science, Civil Engineering

  • Charles Graham, Jr. (BChE 52) Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
  • John Baldeschwieler (BChE 56) Chemistry, Caltech
  • Lloyd Goettler (BChE 62) Polymer Engineering, University of Akron
  • Ed Kramer (BChE 62) Department of Materials, also, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Gary Hamed (BChE 72) Polymers, University of Akron
  • Margaret Frey (BChE 85) Textiles and Apparel, Cornell University
  • Deborah Kaufman Follman (BChE 94), Freshman Engineering, Purdue University
  • Peter Adams (BChE 96) Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon

University Professors of Medicine

  • James Blackwood (BChE 54) Professor, New Jersey Medical School
  • Albert Berger (BChE 64) Professor Physiology/Biophysics, University Washington Medical School (Seattle).
  • Peter Dean (BChE 66) Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Turku, Finland
  • Lewis Hsu (BChE 81) Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University
  • Robert Rakowski (BChE 65) Professor, Chicago Medical College
  • Charles ReVelle (BChE 61) Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins University
  • Michael White (BChE 77) Professor, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
  • Cheryl Walters (BChE 77) Professor, Cornell University Medical College
  • Thomas Sequist (BChE 95) Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
  • Joseph Salama (BChE 97) Instructor, University of Chicago

Professors of Business, Economics

  • M. Colyer Crum (BChE 57) Professor of Business, Harvard Graduate School of Business
  • Paul Bradley (BChE 56) Professor of Economics, Univ. of British Columbia
  • Joseph Liebreich (BChE 59) Professor, Reading Area Community College
  • Richard Franke (BChE 60) Professor, Loyola College
  • Theodore Panitz (BChE 68) Professor, Cape Cod Community College
  • Michael Morgan (BChE 69) Professor of Business, University of Washington (Seattle)