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Dr. Craig G. Downing
Dr. Craig G. Downing received his
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Southern Illinois
University Carbondale and a B.S. in Mathematics from Southeast
Missouri State University. He received his M.S. in Manufacturing
Systems and his doctorate in Workforce Education and Development
from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Downing is the
Interim Department Head for Engineering Management and an Associate
Professor of Engineering Management with responsibility for
Continuing & Professional Studies.
Dr. Downing has as over 12 years of
experience teaching Manufacturing, Management, and Mathematics at
the post-secondary level. Additionally, he has amassed 10
years of industrial experience, four years as a Process Engineer
and six years as a private consultant for organizations including
Lockheed Martin/NASA, Parker Hannifin, and Crain
Enterprises. His interests are rooted in Industrial-Academic
relationships, Quality Management System Development, and
Production/Operations Management. Dr. Downing is a Lean
Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
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Tom Mason, Ph.D.
Tom Mason is Professor Emeritus of
Economics and Engineering Management at Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology where he has been teaching since 1972. He was
founding Head of the Engineering Management Department and its M.S.
degree program and founding Vice President for Entrepreneurship
& Business Planning of Rose-Hulman Ventures. Tom also served
Rose-Hulman as Head of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Vice-President for Administration and Finance, Head of Engineering
Management, and Interim Vice President for Development. While on a
three-year leave from Rose-Hulman, Tom served as CFO and CEO of a
140-person network management systems business. In 2007-08, he used
his sabbatical to study entrepreneurship in Indiana and assist
start-ups as Educator/Entrepreneur in Residence at Indiana Venture
Center. He has been advisor/director for several high tech firms
and has been involved in national efforts to integrate
entrepreneurship and engineering education. Since his retirement
from full time teaching, Tom has co-authored an updated edition of
Forecasting and Management of Technology, teaches
part-time, continues his research and writing on innovation and
entrepreneurship and works in an advisory capacity with several
emerging firms.
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Dr. David Stienstra, Ph.D.
Dr. David Stienstra received his
B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University.
He then attended the University of Iowa for his M.S. degree in
Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from Texas A&M, where he worked on Stochastic
Modeling of Fracture in the Ductile to Brittle Transition Region.
Dr. Stienstra is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and teaches courses in Materials, Manufacturing, Design, and Solid
Mechanics. His professional development has focused on fracture and
failure analysis.
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Dr. Hossein Hariri
Dr. Hariri received his B.S. in Gas
Engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology in Iran, M.S. in
Gas Engineering from IIT in Chicago and Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from University of Manchester in England. He
worked as a gas engineer at the National Iranian Gas Company after
receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree. After receiving his
Ph.D., he worked in the petroleum industry and in Research &
Development in the energy industry for 11 years. His
experience includes the National Iranian Oil Company as project
leader for enhanced oil recovery; the Institute of Gas Technology
in Chicago in engineering research; Amoco Chemical Company,
Naperville, IL as a consultant; and with Eli Lilly and Company,
Indianapolis, IN, as a consultant. He was assistant professor
at IIT in Chicago before joining the Department of Chemical
Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute,
Indiana, where he is a Professor. Dr. Hariri served as the
head of the Department of Chemical Engineering for 11 years and
served as a Director of the Fuels and Petrochemical Division of
AIChE for 3 years.
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Dr. Luann Tilstra, Ph.D.
Dr. Luanne Tilstra received her
B.A. degree in Chemistry from Central College, Pella, Iowa. She
then attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where she
earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry by completing an analysis of
conformational transitions of polypeptides. This was followed by a
postdoctoral position in which time-resolved fluorescence
spectroscopy was used to study properties of proteins. In 1989 she
became a Research Scientist at the National Institutes of Standards
and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD) where she worked with
biodegradable polymers. She joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman in
1992. Dr. Tilstra is a Professor of Chemistry and teaches courses
in Physical Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, and Chemical
Communication Skills. Her current research focuses on analyzing the
kinetics of supramolecular self-assembly, specifically the
auto-association of insulin in solution using fluorescence and
light scattering methods in conjunction with capillary
electrophoresis.
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Dr. Katie Toohey, Ph.D.
Dr. Kathleen S. Toohey received her
B.S. and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. She then attended the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign for her Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, where she worked on self-healing materials research. Dr.
Toohey is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and
teaches courses in mechanics, materials, and experimental
measurement topics. Her research areas have focus on mechanical
behavior of materials, especially polymers, including self-healing
polymers, polymers for orthopedic implants, and hydrogels.
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Dr. Ataris Serbezov, Ph.D.
Dr. Atanas Serbezov is a Professor
of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in
Terre Haute, IN. He holds BS (1991) and MS (1991) degrees in
Process Control from the University of Chemical Technology and
Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria and MS (1995) and PhD (1997) degrees in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
Dr. Serbezov started his
professional career in 1991 as a process control engineer at
Honeywell, Bulgaria, where he worked for two years prior to
enrolling in graduate school. Upon earning his doctorate
degree, Dr. Serbezov joined the adsorption Research &
Development group of Praxair. In 1998 he left Praxair to join
the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. While in
academia, Dr. Serbezov has had extensive engagements with industry,
working as a consultant for Praxair, Eli Lilly and General
Electric. His expertise is in the areas of process
instrumentation, control, modeling and simulation.
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Dr. Mark Inlow
Dr. Mark Inlow received his B.A. in
Mathematics from DePauw University. He subsequently earned
his M.S. in Statistics from San Diego State University and his
Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M University. Upon
earning his Ph.D. in 2001 he was awarded a VIGRE fellowship at the
University of Arizona where he did genetics research and taught
statistics. Upon completing his fellowship in 2003 he joined
the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Inlow
is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and teaches upper-level
theoretical and applied statistics courses. He is also
Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Radiology and
Imaging Sciences in the IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Inlow has over 24 years of
experience using and teaching Statistics. He has worked for
five corporations including DuPont, SAIC, and Sony and five
research agencies including the Salk Institute and, currently, the
IU School of Medicine. He has taught statistics courses at
four universities. His current research interests are
industrial statistics (new methods for analyzing unreplicated
screening factorial experiments and new individual value control
charts) and biostatistics (new methods for analyzing imaging
genomic data, new methods for controlling the false discovery rate,
and Alzheimer's research). Recent publications include "A
Moment Generating Function Proof of the Lindeberg-Levy Central
Limit Theorem," The American Statistician, 2010, and "On Normal
Convergence Criteria for Sums of Row-wise Independent Random
Variables," Journal of Statistical Research, 2010.
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Dr. Kim Henthorn, Ph.D.
Dr. Kimberly Henthorn received her
B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology. She then attended Purdue University where she
earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering by studying the effect of
particle characteristics on particle entrainment and
transport. In 2004, she joined the Chemical and Biological
Engineering department at Missouri University of Science and
Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla) in Rolla,
MO, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010.
She joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman in 2010.
Dr. Henthorn is currently an
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and teaches courses in
Material and Energy Balances and Mass Transfer. Her current
research focuses on solids filtration and mixing, as well as
two-phase microfluidic flows. She has industrial experience
with the Dow Chemical Company and Pfizer, Inc., and has served as a
consultant for Mo-Sci Corporation, Brewer Science, Inc., Loeb &
Loeb, and DuPont.
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Dr. Sharon G. Sauer
Dr. Sharon G. Sauer received her
B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida. She then worked for Shell Oil Company,
Houston, Texas as a computer programmer for chemical process
applications. After three years, she returned to academics to
pursue a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University,
Houston, Texas. Her focus was on parameter development for
and enhancing the SAFT equation of state to accurately model polar
fluids. A secondary focus was on acquiring knowledge and
skills with which to become an effective educator. Upon
completion of the Ph.D. in January, 2002, Dr. Sauer joined the
faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches
courses in Classical Thermodynamics, Multi-Component
Thermodynamics, Advanced Thermodynamics, Unit Operations Laboratory
and Lecture, and Energy and the Environment. Her interests
are in the theoretical and experimental determination of
thermodynamic properties and equation of state parameters,
enhancing energy technologies, and improving the student learning
experience. During her sabbatical, Dr. Sauer consulted for
Conoco Phillips at a coal gasification plant in West Terre Haute,
Indiana. She is an active member of AIChE and the American Society
for Engineering Educators, where she currently serves as chair of
the Illinois/Indiana section.
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Dr. Jessica Livingston
Dr. Jessica Livingston
completed her B.A. in English at the University of Georgia, her
M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky, and her Ph.D. at the
University of Florida. Her doctoral research analyzed fictional and
non-fictional narratives about work in the context of the global
economy. Dr. Livingston is an Assistant Professor at Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology where she teaches technical and
professional communication, film, and literature. Her
research focuses on engineering communication, sustainability, and
representations of work in the global economy.
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