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MFD - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Graduate Seminar

Speaker: Professor Masoud Soroush, Drexel University

Talk Title: Long-Term Academia-Industry Collaboration: The Drexel-DuPont Experience

Series: Graduate Seminar Series

Abstract: Long-term academia-industry research collaboration is rewarding but challenging.
Drexel and DuPont collaborated at different levels for more than a decade. What
began as a personal collaboration in multirate state estimation later evolved into a broad university-corporation collaboration in process systems engineering and
polymer engineering lasting more than a decade. In this talk, the evolution of this collaboration, in terms of the type of projects involved and the level of corporation participation, is described. The challenges and rewards of such a collaboration are described based on this collaboration experience. Results of collaborative projects involving multirate state estimation, instrument fault detection and identification, polymer reaction engineering, and quantum-chemical study of acrylate self-initiation reactions are presented.

Biography: Masoud Soroush is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. He received his BS (Chemical Engineering) from Abadan Institute of Technology,Iran and his MS (Chemical Engineering), MS (Electrical Engineering: Systems), and PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a Visiting Scientist at DuPont Marshall Lab 2002-03 and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University in 2008. His awards include the Faculty Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1997, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from theAmerican Automatic Control Council in 1999, and the Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching from Drexel University in 1999. His research interests are in process systems engineering; mathematical modeling, analysis, and computational design and optimization of fuel cells, solar cells, and power storage systems; probabilistic modeling, risk assessment, and prediction of rare events; fault detection and identification; polymer engineering; and quantum chemical calculations. He was the AIChE Director on the American Automatic Control Council Board of Directors 2010-2013 and the AIChE CAST 10B Programming Coordinator in 2009.

Host: Prof. Sahimi

Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Ryan Choi