Chapter 5:The Baldwin

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When Arthur J. Kidnay was promoted from Department Head to Graduate Dean, Robert M. Baldwin became Department Head. During the last decade of the millennium, Bob led the department ably through remarkable changes, such as:

• more than doubling the undergraduate student body from 200 to 450 students,• hiring ten faculty, including three future Department Heads, • enabling the $2 million endowment of the W. K. Coors Chair in Chemical

Engineering, • design/building of a new four-story research wing, more than doubling the space

of Alderson Hall,• renovating the unit operations building and experiments,• establishing a computer-aided curriculum with a computer lab for each course,

and• inauguration of the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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The department was undergoing a major transition to a computer-aided curriculum, with two laboratories (unit operations and computer) associated with every course. Mines was one of first departments nation-wide to incorporate Aspen+ as a teaching/learning tool. The curriculum development resulted in a $1.4 million Colorado Commission on Higher Education Excellence Grant for application of computer modeling and simulation in Chemical Engineering. In addition, employment rates and salaries of department graduates were very high, second only to Petroleum Engineering; that, together with a modernized curriculum attracted an increased student enrollment over the decade.

With the promotion of Art Kidnay to Graduate Dean however, the department had too few faculty. Bob Baldwin recalled the low faculty number at a 1990 faculty meeting (Baldwin, Bunge, Graboski, Selim, Sloan, and Yesavage) when Bunge declared to the assemblage, “You know, we’re too small to be viable!” Bob took to Annette’s words like an old warhorse responds to the bugle call. He started rebuilding the faculty, with the strong encouragement and support of Provost Frank Schowengerdt, and President George Ansell.

To maintain a high faculty to student ratio, Bob hired nine faculty: future CBEN Department Heads Jim Ely and Dave Marr, future Department Head of Mines Chemistry David Wu, the inaugural W. K. Coors Endowed Chair Anthony Dean, John Dorgan, Andy Herring, Tom McKinnon, Doug Way, and Colin Wolden. Brief biographies are provided following this introductory section, with an alphabetized CV in Appendix II for each faculty.

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CEPR Faculty 2000. Front Row (left to right): Golden, Selim, Bunge, Termin, Miller, Clark, Way, Dorgan. Back Row: Ely, McKinnon, Graboski,

Baldwin, Yesavage, Sloan, Knecht

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In the early 1990s computer-aided process design was just becoming available. This new tool promised to revolutionize the process design industry by allowing for rapid development of process models, complete with mass and energy balances, that could be used for detailed design, scale-up, and economic analysis. Several faculty in the then CEPR (Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining) department recognized the great promise as a teaching and learning tool, and accordingly the Department began investigating requirements for acquisition of the software and hardware required to utilize the tool, which was being developed and marketed by Aspen+ Technology.

Initial efforts to implement the software in the department were frustrating due to the extremely cumbersome interface that required entering lines of code; hours of pouring over hundreds of lines of code were required to de-bug simulations. Professor Sami Selim took the lead in these initial investigations and spent a sabbatical semester at Phillips Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he worked with scientists and engineers to become an adept user of the software. Fortunately, the software progressed rapidly beyond the need for coding, and a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) was soon developed which made implementation as a teaching/learning tool feasible. At the time, computational performance requirements for the Aspen+ software were far beyond the capabilities of a desktop computer; hence the department invested in 30 state-of-the-art IBM workstations to drive the software.

This led to the establishment in 1995 of the department’s first dedicated computer laboratory, the Coady Lab. This facility was made possible by a generous donation from 1954 CEPR alumnus Bernard Coady which paid for much of the infrastructure required to outfit the lab for teaching computer-aided process design. The Mines Chemical Engineering program was subsequently one of the first in the U.S.A. to utilize computer-aided process design as a teaching tool across the entire undergraduate curriculum by imbedding elements of Aspen+ (and HYSYS) software into each course. By the time students reached the capstone senior design course, their familiarity with the software allowed execution of extremely ambitious design problems.

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Initial 1995 Coady Computer Laboratory

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With the installation of Dr. George Ansell as President of the Colorado School of Mines in 1984, CSM undertook a very aggressive campaign to modernize and expand its academic infrastructure. As part of this campaign, the critical needs of the (then) Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering (CEPR) and the Petroleum Engineering (PE) Departments were at the top of George’s list for new facilities.

In 1990, funded by the State of Colorado, construction began on a $11 million addition to Alderson Hall that more than doubled the academic and research space available to the CEPR and PE Departments. Included in the new facilities were research space for hazardous experiments, and high-quality labs with the ability to be easily re-configured to satisfy research needs. Faculty from that era can well remember the trials and tribulations of living and working in a building that was simultaneously under renovation and expansion for more than three years. The Chemical Engineering Department has recently expanded into most of the space in Alderson Hall as the PE Department has moved to its own dedicated facility (Marquez Hall).

Alderson Hall research addition ‘”Flow”: leaded glass art at the entrance to the new addition.

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Institute Initativeby: Bob Baldwin and Bruce Palmer

In the fall of 1999, a committee from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company visited CSM to discuss formation of a new college in Abu Dhabi dedicated to education of students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and surrounding countries in technical areas specific to the oil and gas industries. This committee presented then President Ted Bickart with a request for a proposal to describe a vision and structure of such an institution, and to detail how CSM could help facilitate establishing this school. A similar request was made from 10 other well-known engineering schools around the world including Imperial College (UK), IFP (France), and several of the top academic institutions in the U.S.A. including University of Texas (Austin), Texas A&M, Stanford, and MIT.

Bob Baldwin was appointed by President Bickart to lead the development of CSM’s proposal, along with Dr. Nigel Middleton. After review and a site visit to Abu Dhabi, the Mines team was notified that their proposal was selected and that CSM would be the ‘academic partner’ in the development of this new school. The Petroleum Institute (PI) of Abu Dhabi was established by Emeri decree in 2001 with the stated goal of educating UAE Nationals in fields of engineering that serve the on-going needs of the oil and gas industry in the Arabian Gulf region.

Recognizing the longstanding reputation of the Colorado School of Mines for excellence in engineering education and applied sciences as well as its focus on energy and natural resource technologies, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed a nine-year agreement with the Colorado School of Mines to provide leadership in establishing the first special purpose Western-modeled higher academic engineering college in the Gulf region.

CSM’s role was primarily in curriculum and facilities development, and faculty recruiting. Bob Baldwin along with John Golden and Warren Spaulding relocated from Golden to Abu Dhabi in 2002 in order to provide on-site direction of the Institute during its formative years. Later Bob became the first Program Head in Chemical Engineering, while John became the Chief Academic Officer. Warren Spaulding was the first Registrar at the PI and Dixie Termin (see Staff Years) served as departmental Administrative Assistant.

Degree programs were established in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Petroleum Geosciences; all programs achieved initial accreditation by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and later were accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET).

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Bob Baldwin and Khalifa Al Hosani (ADNOC) discussing construction of the

first academic building at the PI (Spring, 2001)

Chemical Engineering students in the PI Unit Operations Laboratory

Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil touring PI Petroleum Engineering drilling simulator (February, 2006)

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With funding from a consortium of major oil companies including ADNOC, Shell, British Petroleum, TOTAL, and JODCO, and led by the team from the Colorado School of Mines (John Golden, Warren Spaulding, and Bob Baldwin), the PI enrolled its first students in 2001 – 142 young men – and began classes taught by 14 instructors. By August 2006 the Institute had 814 students registered for classes who were taught by over 100 faculty members who had been recruited worldwide.

The first women were admitted to the PI in 2005. CSM faculty members were encouraged to spend a semester or more at the PI. Ron Miller (CBE) and Greg Holden (Geology) both took advantage of this program. Other Mines family members also spent time at the PI including Bruce Palmer, Hugh Murphy, and Lynne Golden. In 2008 Ahmed Al Shoaibi, CSM 2008 Ph.D. graduate, joined the PI and is currently a Chemical Engineering Associate Professor. A member of the first PI graduating class, Yasser Al Wahedi, returned to the PI in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the department.

Today the PI is part of Khalifa University, but still retains its specialized educational focus on oil and gas. The curriculum has expanded to include post graduate degrees, and related fields such as materials science.

Graduation of the first Chemical Engineering class, (2005). Two people to the right of Bob Baldwin is Rahim

El Keib, then Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the PI and later interim President of Libya

after the fall of Khadafy.

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First Chemical Engineering Class at the Petroleum Institute. Faculty pictured are Bob Baldwin (center), Bruce Palmer and

Mohamed Sassi (back row, far right), Saleh Al Hashimi (front row, second from left), and Yasser Al Wahedi (immediately left of Bob

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Below are two student story from the Baldwin years. We hope all alumni will consider returning to their Alma Mater to tell us their stories.

Debra Pacas Johnson, B.S. (1996) CEPR; M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2007) both in MME from Mines

Truly, Dr. Sloan’s office time probably saved my life more than once. I was so sad that I was not succeeding at learning during those days. Somehow, his few words regarding my own view of myself transformed my thinking. It was something to the effect, “Quit waiting for someone to tell you that you aren’t good enough.” Funny enough, there was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation that my roommates were watching at about the same time. It was called “The Higher, the Fewer”. Between Dr. Sloan’s advisement and a change in perspective offered to me through that episode (I was only an occasional viewer) I decided to stop worrying so much. Over the years, Dr. Sloan’s statement became an amalgam to my own philosophy. Perspective and balance is always driving a solution.

AIChE Student Chapter circa 1996

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Sabine (Molden) Brueske, CPRE B.S., (1994)

What an honor to be part of such a successful and impactful group. I would never have known about Mines, or about what chemical engineers do, if it weren’t for the gentle encouragement of my father, Jim Molden ’60 CPR. I am proud to be a legacy Mines Alumna and a legacy Mines Chemical Engineering Alumna. I hope to continue paying the encouragement forward in my career. Nothing could make my father prouder than replicating the graduation photo with his parents on the steps of Guggenheim ’60, with his youngest daughter in ’94… except maybe if one of his grandkids decides to pursue an education at Mines too.

Many faculty inspired me during my time at Mines: Dr Yesavage (McCabe-Thiele diagrams by hand until we got them right), Dr Golden (he reminded me that it is fun to learn), Dr Baldwin (turns out I was pretty good at Kinetics after all), and Dr. Miller (the presentation skills you focused on are one of the most useful skills in my career) – thank you! I was recently asked which class at Mines was the most memorable. At first P. Chem II, Calc III, Kinetics, Unit Ops came to mind as being the toughest for me, and then I settled on the entry Chemical Engineering class –the red Wiley textbook “Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes” has a proud spot on my bookshelf. I’ve talked with other engineers at various points in my career who referred to that class at other institutions being a “weed out” class, and one of the hardest first year classes. I recall that class being refreshingly logical, I didn’t love the chemistry curriculum but this class made sense to me. It was certainly the confirmation I needed to continue my coursework in Chemical Engineering, and I still use that understanding of systems, boundaries, balances in my career every day.

I will end with a memory of my last class at Mines as an undergrad student, Unit Ops lab. I had a job in hand and internships under my belt and was ready for the real world. During those long hot days in the Unit Ops lab wearing our hard hats, I felt like I was in bootcamp. Our skills were ready to be proven, the comradery was rock solid, and we were all edgy to get it done right and get out of there. I remember someone taking this photo of me with teammates Kristina Daniels and Cash Kelloff. When I picked up the prints from Foss Drug and saw this photo, I was struck by the realization that I was almost done, almost out the door. I walked to the home goods isle at Foss and bought myself a cheap 3x5 frame for the photo and told my future self to remember this moment. I wanted to remember how hard I had worked to get to that point, the sacrifices I had made, and how I had truly earned whatever came next in my life and career. That photo in the cheap Foss frame still sits on my office bookshelf next to my textbooks, and I’m grateful to my former self for the insightful reminder.

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Two Generations of Molden Mines graduates: father (1960) and daughter (1994)

(Left to Right) Molden, Daniels, and Kelloff in Unit Ops Lab

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James F. Ely graduated with a B.S. from Butler University in 1968, before obtaining his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1971. He did four years of postdoctoral research divided evenly between the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Boulder, Colorado, and Professor Kobayashi’s laboratory at Rice University. From 1975 to 1979, Jim worked with the Shell Development Company, where he developed fluid property prediction methods.

In 1979 Jim returned to Boulder to a full-time position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, formerly NBS). He became the Group Leader of the Theory and Data Group (1988-1991), and from 1990-1991 he was the Associate Director of the NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory.

While at NIST, Jim accepted an Adjunct Professorship at Mines in 1981. In 1991, after a dozen years at NIST, Jim accepted a full-time position as Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Mines. In 2000, when Bob Baldwin departed to inaugurate the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jim was named Head of the Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering Department. From 2007-2016 he was the Director of the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) program.

Jim has won multiple awards in academia, including the Mines Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award (2002), and in industry, including the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Silver Medal for Meritorious Federal service, and the NBS sustained superior performance award, 1983 and 1985-1990. In 2009, Jim was given the Donald L. Katz Award for research by the Gas Processors Association.

For more on Jim’s advancement of the department, see “The Ely Years (2000-2010)” in the following chapter.

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David W.M. Marr obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, before obtaining his M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993), from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering. From 1993-1995, he was a Staff Scientist/Post Doctoral Fellow with Raychem Corporation.

In 1995, Dave became an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, advancing to Associate Professor (2000), Full Professor (2006), and Department Head in 2010. For more on Dave’s leadership in the department, see the chapter “The Marr Years (2010-2016).”

Dave Marr has a number of awards for his outstanding performance: Faculty Senate Distinguished Lecturer (2014), Dean’s Excellence at Mines (2007), the Outstanding Faculty Member in Chemical Engineering (2004), the Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany (2005), the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Space Act Award (2006), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, (1998). He has taken sabbaticals in Germany and Thailand. Dave has nine patents in the area of microfluidics and colloids.

David Marr

David Tai-Wei Wu graduated from Harvard University (Magna Cum Laude) in Chemistry (1985), before obtaining his Ph.D. (1991) in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University (1991-1993) and in Chemical Engineering at University of California at Santa Barbara (1993-1996).

In 1996, David took a joint appointment in Chemical Engineering and in Chemistry at Mines, rising from Assistant to Associate Professor in 2002. He was appointed Professor in 2008, and Chaired the Mines Chemistry Department from 2012 to 2017, when he returned to Chemical and Biological Engineering, after a sabbatical in Taiwan. Like David Marr, David Wu’s personal relationships are international, particularly connected to France and Taiwan.

David does research in four areas: 1) conformational effect in conducting polymers, 2) statistical mechanics of powders, 3) direct simulation algorithms, and 4) viral morphogenesis for programmed self-assembly. David has received numerous of awards for his scholarship and innovation, such as the Research Corporation’s Research Innovation Award for five consecutive years (1997-2002).

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Anthony M. Dean attended Georgia Institute of Technology briefly before obtaining his B.S. in Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude) from Spring Hill College in 1966. He obtained his A.M. (1967) and Ph.D. (1971) from Harvard in Physical Chemistry.

Tony joined the Department of Chemistry at University of Missouri-Columbia as an Assistant Professor (1970), becoming an Associate Professor in 1975, and then Associate Chairman of the Department of Chemistry in 1977. He joined the Corporate Research Laboratory of Exxon Research and Engineering in 1979, rising to Senior Research Associate (1990-2000) doing research in kinetic mechanisms of engine fuel reactivity. Tony has 13 patents in the area of fuel combustion.

In 2000, Tony accepted the inaugural W. K. Coors Distinguished Professorship at Mines. He held that Chaired Professorship until 2012, when he was named Dean of the College of Applied Science and Engineering (2013-2014). Tony was named Senior Vice President of Research and Technology Transfer in 2015, and held that position until his retirement in 2017.

Tony’s unusual ability is bespoken by his rapid advancement in Mines’ administration. He was given the Dean’s Excellence Award at Mines in 2008, for meritorious achievements in Teaching and Scholarship.

Upon his retirement Tony said, “The thing that made it really neat to go to work in the morning was the interaction with the students. On a certain level you have an interaction with the undergraduates, but there you have a large number in a class, and you will get to know a small subset of them pretty well, but that is a qualitative difference from what happens with your own research group, because you then are interacting every day for years with these grad students and postdocs. I was incredibly fortunate, all the way through, to have group members who really viewed it as an opportunity to not only learn their particular specialty but also to help the others in the group.”

Tony Dean

W. K. Coors Distinguished Professor

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John Dorgan John R. Dorgan obtained his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts (Summa Cum Laude) in 1986, before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, both in Chemical Engineering. He then did postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, in Mainz, Germany in 1992.

In 1993, John was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Mines Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining Department, rising to Associate Professor (1996), and then Full Professor (2005).

During John’s Mines career he did research in polymers, and he helped launch the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), which included the principal four Colorado Research Institutions: Mines, Colorado University, Colorado State University, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

John was given the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995) and the Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award (1996). He also served as the Elected Faculty Trustee to the Mines Board of Trustees (2008). After 24 years, in 2017John retired from Mines to take the inaugural Lamp Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University.

Andrew M. Herring obtain his B.Sc. (Honors) in 1985 and his Ph.D. (1988) in Chemistry from the University of Leeds, UK. From 1988-1990 Andy was a NATO/SERC Postdoctoral Fellow.

In 2000, Andy was appointed Assistant Research Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering and Associate Research Professor in 2004, before being promoted to Associate Professor in 2006, and Professor in 2015.

Andy has four patents and a number of research awards: American Chemical Society (ACS) Fuel Division Glenn Award (2006); the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2007, 2008, 2009; the Colorado School of Mines Excellence in Research Award, 2011; and the ACS Energy and Fuel Division Distinguished Service Award, 2015. Andy was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, in 2016. In 2018, Andy was given the Henry H. Storch Award from the American Chemical Society.

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J. Thomas McKinnon, Jr. obtained a B.S. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering in 1979 from Cornell University, and worked for the Solar Energy Research Institute (later renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)) from 1979 to 1982. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Tom was a senior engineer for TDA Research, Inc. in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, before becoming a Research Associate in Combustion Research at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1990.

In 1991, Tom was first appointed as an Assistant Professor of Mines Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, and then Professor in 2001. While he was at Mines Tom did research in combustion and software development, and he served as founder or co-founder of several related companies: 1) the RES Group, Inc. in Cambridge, MA (1996-2008), 2) Fullerene Sciences, Inc. in Boulder, CO (2005-2008), and 3) Novare Biofuels, Inc., in Boulder, CO (2006-2009).

While at Mines, Tom also conducted research on pyrolysis of halogenated hydrocarbons, fine water mist fire suppression systems, and nanomaterial synthesis. Experiments were done in molecular beam mass spectrometry, flow tube pyrolysis reactors, and microgravity drop tower experiments. Tom was the Principal Investigator (PI) for the water mist fire suppression experiment that flew on the Space Shuttle STS-107, and he was PI on the OpenChem Workbench combustion modeling software project.

In 2009, Tom retired from Mines as Professor Emeritus to do small company startups and consulting work in Boulder, CO.

J. Thomas McKinnon

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James Douglas Way obtained his B.S. (1978), M.S. (1980), and Ph.D. (1986) all in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a Senior Chemical Engineer at Stanford Research Institute from 1987 to 1989, when Doug joined Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 1993, he accepted a Research Professor position at Mines, and rapidly advanced to Associate Professor (1994) and Full Professor (2003) of Chemical Engineering. Doug retired as Professor Emeritus in 2017.

Doug holds ten patents in his research area of membrane separations. Doug is internationally recognized for research and teaching in separations. He won the Dean’s Excellence Award (2011), and in 2014 Doug won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology. He was elected to Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary as Eminent Engineer (2017), and he was named Outstanding faculty member in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2017.

Doug continues a very active research career

as an Emeritus Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering. By 2018, Doug had 123 peer-reviewed publications, and more than 7,000 citations listed in Google Scholar.

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Colin A. Wolden obtained his B.S. from the University of Minnesota (1990) and his M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Chemical Engineering. During his last year at MIT, he was the Station Director of the MIT Chemical Engineering Practice School. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University.

In 1997, Colin began as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mines, and he subsequently was promoted to Associate Professor (2002) and Full Professor (2008). From 2010-2017 Colin held the Gaylord and Phyllis Weaver Distinguished Professorship of Chemical Engineering.

Colin develops nanostructured materials and processes for applications in energy sustainability. To date, he has published more than150 papers and mentored >30 graduate students. Professional honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2001), Science Foundation Ireland’s E.T.S. Walton Fellowship (2010), CSM Dean’s Excellence Award (2013), and he is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (2014).

Colin also served the Mines faculty on the Faculty Senate (2004-2006). He twice served as Interim Department Head (2015, 2017), and his contributions during the latter appointment are detailed in the chapter, “The Chauhan Years,” which includes the interim heads.

Colin Wolden

John grew up in Michigan and attended the University of Toledo and the University of Michigan for his B.S.ChE. and M.S.ChE. He has over 37 years working in industry, primarily in areas of fuels-related technology. The companies ranged from Marathon Oil Company, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and a global engineering and construction firm URS/AECOM supporting both petroleum and biofuels clients.

John became an Adjunct Professor at Mines in 1999. In 2017, he accepted a full-time position as the first Professor of Practice in the department.

John Jechura

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Dixie Termin1990-2000 Administrative Assistant

Dixie Termin transferred from the Chemistry department to Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering where she was both energetic and helpful to students and faculty, while pursuing her baccalaureate from Regis University. After obtaining her undergraduate degree, she transferred to the Registrar’s Office to use her new qualifications in a different venue. Dixie served as the departmental Administrative Assistant during the startup years at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi

Randy Miner1994-2003 Lab Coordinator

In 1994, Ron Miner had a small physical disability, which limited his walking and climbing stairs. However, Ron’s organizational and planning power remained in peak condition, and the department highly valued Ron’s experience and ability. We were fortunate to obtain the service of Ron’s son Randy, who was a great complement to his father. The pair provided a new decade of experimental organization and advances for the department. Randy did planning and heavy lifting in departmental labs. In 2003, both Randy and his father Ron retired to start a new life in Alaska.

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2000 Curriculum

Freshman Year

Fall Semester Sem Hrs.CHGN 121 Principles of Chemistry I 4MAGN 131 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 4GEOL 101 General Geology 3EPIC 101 EPICS I 3MEGN 111 Principles of Economics I 3PAGN 101 Physical Education I 0.5Total 17.5

Spring Semester Sem Hrs.CHGN 124 Principles of Chemistry II 3CHGN 126 Quantitative Chemical Measurements 1MAGN 132 Analytic Geometry and Calculus II 3HSHU 100 Crossroads 3PHGN 132 Physics I-Mechanics 3.5EPIC 102 EPICS II 3PAGN 102 Physical Education II 0.5Total 17

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester Sem Hrs.CHGN 203 Physical Chemistry I 4MAGN 231 Analytic Geometry and Calculus III 3EPIC 201 EPICS III 3PHGN 231 Physics II-Electricity and Magnetism 3.5Free Elective 3PAGN 201 Physical Education III 0.5Total 17

Spring Semester Sem Hrs.CHGN 204 Physical Chemistry II 4CRGN 301 Chemical Process Principles 3HSHU H&SS mid-level elective 3MAGN 315 Differential Equations 3EPIC 202 EPICS IV 2PAGN 202 Physical Education IV 0.5Total 15.5

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Fall Semester Sem Hrs.Free Elective 3MAGN Mathematics Elective (1) 3CHGN 327 Organic Chemistry 3CRGN 307 Unit Operations I 3CRGN 357 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 4CHGN Chemistry Elective (1) 3Total 19

Spring Semester Sem Hrs.CRGN 421 Engineering Economics 3HSHU H&SS mid-level Elective 3CHGN 328 Organic Chemistry II 3CHGN 325 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1CRGN 308 Unit Operations II 4CRGN 375 Mass Transfer Operations 3Total 17

Summer Sem Hrs.ChEN 312/13 Unit Operations Lab 6

Senior Year

Fall Semester Sem Hrs.ESGN 300 Essentials of Environmental Sciences 3Engineering Elective (2) 3CRGN 403 Process Dynamics 3CRGN 418 Catalysis, Kinetics, and Reactor AnalysisHSHU H&SS Senior Seminar 3Free Elective 3Total 18

Spring Semester Sem Hrs.CRGN 402 Engineering Design 3CRGN 409 Petrochemical Processes 3Engineering Elective (2) 3MEGN 312 Principles of Economics II 3Free Elective (2) 3Engineering Elective (2) 3Total 18

Total Degree Hours 145