Seader

Dr. J.D. (Bob) Seader

Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering,
The University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering
50 S. Central Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
J.Seader@utah.edu

Education:

B.S., (Summa Cum Laude), Chemistry, 1949, University of California, Berkeley.
M.S., 1950, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (under Charles W. Tobias).
Ph.D., 1952, Chemical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (under W.R. Marshall, Jr.).
Post-graduate courses in advanced mathematics and engineering, 1960-1961, University of California, Los Angeles.

Employment:

Chevron Research Corporation, 1952-1959, Group Supervisor of Chemical Process Design; Engineering Research.
Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, 1959-1965, Principle Scientist for Heat Transfer.
University of Idaho, 1965-1966, Professor of Chemical Engineering.
University of Utah, 1966-2003, Professor of Chemical Engineering; Department Chairman, 1975-1978.

Awards and Recognition

  • NASA Tech Brief Award for research on liquid hydrogen convective heat transfer, 1971
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Utah, 1975
  • Article, "J.D. Seader of Utah", in "Chemical Engineering Education", Spring 1982, pp 56-60
  • 35th AIChE Annual Institute Lecture, "Computer Modeling of Chemical Processes," 1983
  • Fellow of AIChE,1983
  • AIChE Director, 1983-85
  • Citation Classic for 1961 Chao-Seader paper in AIChE Journal, Current Contents, No. 27, Sept. 13 1982
  • Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, CAST Division, AIChE, 1988
  • Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1990
  • Best Paper Award for 1990, Computers and Chemical Engineering
  • Dean's Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of utah, 12 June 1998
  • J. D. (Bob) Seader Festschrift in the June 2000 issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
  • ASEE CACHE Award for Excellence in Computing in Chemical Engineering Education for 2004
  • AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineer Education, 2004. joinly with W. D. Seider
  • Cited in 2008 by AIChE as one of 30 authors in last 100 years with a groundbreaking book in Chemical Engineering ("Separation Process Principles")

Recent Textbooks:

Seider
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