Session Honoring Phil Wankat

This session honors Professor Phil Wankat for a career of over 40 years as a pioneer in Separation Science and Engineering Education.  Phil Wankat holds positions as the Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Director of Undergraduate Degree Programs in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has a BS from Purdue, PhD from Princeton and MSEd in Counseling from Purdue.  Phil has made tremendous impact in his career through his writing:  two important text books in Separation Processes, as well as Teaching Engineering and The Effective, Efficient Professor:  Teaching, Scholarship and Service.  He was also instrumental in establishing the Interdisciplinary Engineering Program at Purdue.  Through his research, teaching and mentoring, Phil has made a huge impact on more than one generation of students and faculty colleagues.  Speakers at the session are: 

Marco Mazzotti (ETH, Zurich)  “Students explain the invisible: a physical model against misconceptions about CO2 geological storage" 

Leonard Pease (Utah)  “Influence of Social networks on Engineering Education”

Tim Anderson (Massachusetts) “How Chemical Engineering Students Are Different and the Effective, Efficient Professor”

Rich Noble (Colorado) “Thanks to Phil”

Stewart Slater (Rowan) “Phil, A Professor whose Contributions SEPARATE him from the Rest”

David Silverstein (Kentucky) “Following in Selected Footsteps of Phil”

Frank Oreovicz (Purdue) “Reflections on an Enquiring Mind”

Cristina Farmus (Purdue) “Phil’s Legacy at Purdue”

Rich Felder (North Carolina State) "OK, So There Are Some Superhuman Professors"

Phil Wankat “The Last Word”