Engineering prof receives international recognition

Stanley Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering

2:20 p.m., April 22, 2004--New international recognition and honors have come to Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering. He has been elected a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in Great Britain, which also means he is a chartered engineer (the equivalent of a registered engineer in the U.S.) throughout the European community.

In addition, he has been appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow from now until 2009 at the University of Melbourne, where he was on sabbatical last year as Miegunyah Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Sandler has several research projects under way at the University of Melbourne and will spend part of each year in Australia.

Among his many previous honors, Sandler received the 1993 Francis Alison Award as an outstanding member of the UD faculty; is one of the 80 elected chemical engineering members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest awards in engineering; received the E. V. Murphree Award from the American Chemical Society and the Warren K. Lewis and Profession Progress awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and was named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Sandler is an expert on thermodynamics, the purification and separation of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and the use of computers in chemical engineering. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 300 research papers.

In addition, he served on the National Research Council’s committees on the destruction of assembled chemical weapons for five years.

A graduate of the City College of New York with a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Sandler joined UD’s faculty in 1967 and was named Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1982 before being named a chaired professor in 2000. He has served as chairperson of the chemical engineering department, as interim dean of the College of Engineering and, since 1992, as the director of the Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics.

Article by Sue Moncure
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