EXPERIENCE

Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. August 1994 - Date. Associate Professor, 8/87-8/94; Assistant Professor 8/82 -8/87.
Battelle Summer Faculty Associate, US Army PMCD, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where he worked on incinerator scrubber pH control, TCLP metal leaching, and charcoal filtration, 1995-1998.
Research Fellow, Morgantown Energy Technology Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he worked on high temperature fuel gas cleanup for coal gasification, 1990.
Development Engineer, Chemical Engineering Consultants, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma. 1981 - 1982.
Production Engineer, Hualon-Teijin Corporation, Tofen Polyester Plant, Tofen, Taiwan. 1971 - 1973.

Process Control (Digital Filter, Dynamic Regression, Pattern Recognition, and Dynamic Simulation).
Air Pollution Control (NOx / VOC abatement, Photoreactor Improvement, and Sulfur Recovery)
Thermodynamics (Environmental Property Data)

"Optical Fibers Coated with Titania Membrane/UV-Generating Crystal in a Distributed-Light Photoreactor for VOC Oxidation" with K. Y. Li (PI), Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center, $101,785, 2000-2002.
"Early Detection of Equipment Failure or Control System Performance by Pattern Recognition," Nexus Engineering, $36,560, 2001-2002.
"Super-Porous Titania/NLO-Coated Fiber Optic Photoreactor for Environmental Applications" with K. Y. Li (Co-PI), ARP/ATP Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $154,000, 2000-2002.
"Process Dynamics and Advanced Control," ExxonMobil grant for developing a series of new graduate courses "Neural Networks", "Dynamic Matrix Control" and "Dynamic Simulation" $50,000(DEW/DHC/JLG/JRH), 2000-2002.
"Integrating Best Practice Pedagogy with Computer-Aided Modeling and Simulation to Improve Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Education," National Science Foundation, $75,000(with other team members), 2000-2001.

"Photocatalytic Oxidation of Butyraldehyde in Air: Byproduct Identification and Mechanism," with C. Huang, and K. Li, paper accepted for publication in Chem. Eng. Comm,130(3), 2003.
Fluid Flow Handbook, Chapter 16: " Flow Control", Editor: Jamal Saleh, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002.
"TiO2 Photocatalytic Oxidation of Butyraldehyde and PCE in the Air through Concentric Reactors," with K. Li, S.Y.C. Liu, C. Huang, S. Esariyaumpai, J. Adv. Oxid. Technol, 5(2), 227-232 (2002).
"TiO2 Photocatalytic Oxidation Of Nitric Oxide: Transient Behavior And Reaction Kinetics"Sid Devahasdin, Chiun-Jr Fan, Kuyen Li, and Daniel H. Chen, paper accepted for publication in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A; Chemistry (2003)
"Multi-Electronic Media Classroom for Computer-Aided, Problem-Based Learning for Improved Chemical Engineering Simulation, Analysis, Control, and Reactor Design Education," Paper presented in the ICEE 2002 Conference (with D. Cocke, J. Gossage, H. Lou, and K. Li) Manchester, UK, August 18-22, 2002.
"Simulation of Distillation Tower Pump Failures with HYSYS Dynamic Models," with P. Lo, W.C. Bean, and W. Thompson, Control, October 2000.
"Experience with a Process Simulator in a Senior Process Control Laboratory," with S. Munagala and J. R. Hopper, Chemical Engineering Education, 27(3), 194-199(1993).
Thermodynamic and Physical Property Data, with Yaws, C. L.; Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, Texas (1992).

American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Chemical Society
Air & Waste Management Association
Tau Beta Pi Association
Registered Professional Engineer (Texas #60100)