Morton Denn
Physics
Director of the Levich Institute
Email:
denn [ AT ] levdec [ DOT ] engr [ DOT ] ccny [ DOT ] cuny [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone:
(212) 650-7444
Education:
- * B.S.E. Princeton University, 1961, Chemical Engineering
- * Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1964, Chemical Engineering
- * Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware, 1964-65, Chemical Engineering
Biography:
- Director, The Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, July 2000 -
- Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1999 -
- Professor of Physics, 2001 -
- Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1981- 99; Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1991-94
- Program Leader, Polymers and Composites, Center for Advanced Materials, 1983- 99
- Head of Materials Chemistry, Materials Sciences Division, 1995 - 98
- Assistant Professor to Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1965-77
- Allan P. Colburn Professor, 1977-81
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chem. Eng'g., Visiting Lecturer, 1978-85
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Harry Pierce Professor, Sept., 1979 - Jan., 1980
- California Institute of Technology, Chevron Energy Professor, February-July, 1980
- University of Melbourne, Australia, Visiting Professor, January-June, 1985
- Hebrew University, Israel, Forchheimer Visiting Professor, Sept., 1998 - Jan., 1999
- Editor, Journal of Rheology, 1995-2005
- Editor, AIChE Journal, 1985-91; Consulting Editor, AIChE Journal, 1991- 95
- Editorial Board, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 1976-
- Editorial Board, Advances in Chemical Engineering, 1984-85, 1992-2003
- Editorial Board, Rheologica Acta, 1995-2005
HONORS AND AWARDS:
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1971-72
- Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1977
- Fulbright Lecturer, 1979-80
- William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1984
- Bingham Medal, Society of Rheology, 1986
- National Academy of Engineering, elected 1986
- Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award, American Soc. for Engineering Education, 1993
- Warren K. Lewis Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1998
- Institute Lecturer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1999
- D. Sc. (honorary), University of Minnesota, 2001
- Distinguished Service Award, Society of Rheology, 2005
LATEST PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
- Optimization by Variational Methods, McGraw-Hill, 1969; reprint edition, Robert Krieger, 1978.
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis (with T. W. F. Russell), Wiley, 1972; Spanish language edition, eds. Limusa, 1976.
- Stability of Reaction and Transport Processes, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
- Process Fluid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall, 1980.
- Process Modeling, Longman/Wiley, 1986.
Book Chapters:
- Modeling for Process Control, in Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. XV, C. T. Leondes, ed., Academic Press, 1979, p. 147
- Fibre Spinning, in Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing, J. R. A. Pearson and S. Richardson, eds., Elsevier Applied Science Publ., 1983, p. 179
- Coal Gasification Reactors (with R. Shinnar), in Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, J. J. Carberry and A. Varma, eds., Marcel Dekker, 1986, p. 499
- Processing, Modeling, in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, vol. 13, J. I. Kroschwitz, ed., Wiley, 1988, p. 425; abridged version printed in Concise Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, J. I. Kroschwitz, ed., Wiley, 1990, p. 909
- The Identity of our Profession, in C. W. Colton, ed., Perspectives in Chemical Engineering (Advances in Chemical Engineering, 16), Academic Press, NY, 1991, p. 565
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