Professor of Chemical Engineering
e-mail: seider@seas.upenn.edu
Education:
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1962 (now Polytechnic University)
M.S.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1963
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1966
PhD Dissertation:
Confined Jet Mixing in the Entrance Region of a Tubular Reactor
Advisor: Prof. S. W. Churchill
Professional Employment:
University of Pennsylvania, Full Professor, July 1984 - present
University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor, June 1971 - June, 1984
University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, August 1967 - June, 1971
Esso Research and Eng. Co., Research Engineering, Summer, 1964 (Linden, NJ)
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Research Engineering, Summer, 1962 (Parkersburg, WV)
Diamond Alkali Co., Research Engineering, Summer, 1961 (Painesville, OH)
Field of Expertise:
Process analysis, simulation, design, and control; phase and chemical equilibria; azeotropic distillation; chemical reaction systems; heat and power integration; Czochralski crystallization; applied numerical methods.
Honors:
John M. Henske Distinguished Lecturer, Yale University, December, 1997
Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Spring, 1996
Elected President of the CACHE Corporation, 1994-1996
AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, 1992
Elected a Director of AIChE, 1984-86
Medal of City of Paris, presented by Mayor Chirac, 1983
NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 1974
ASEE - Dow Chemical Company Young Faculty Delegate Award, 1969
NASA Traineeship, University of Michigan
Tau Beta Pi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Omega Chi Epsilon
Conferences Chaired:
"Foundations of Computer-Aided Chemical Process Design," International Conference at Henniker, New Hampshire, July 6-11, 1980; co-chaired with Richard S.H. Mah.
Plenary Lectures:
"Model and Algorithm Synthesis in Process Analysis and Design," Conference on Computers in Chemical Engineering, Paris, France, April 19, 1983.
"Chemical Engineering and Instructional Computing - Are They in Step?, "ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty, Southeastern Massachusetts University, August 14, 1987.
"Simulation for Design and Analysis of Complex Chemical Processes," ESCAPE-I Conference, Elsinore, Denmark, May 25, 1992.
Sessions Chaired:
"The Impact of Man-Computer Interaction in Chemical Engineering," 64th National Meeting of AIChE, New Orleans, March, 1969.
"Chemical Engineering Computing: Process Analysis and Design," 68th National Meeting of AIChE, Houston, March 1971.
"CACHE Update: Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education," 72nd National Meeting of AIChE, St. Louis, May, 1972.
"Advances in Chemical Engineering Computing," 68th Annual Meeting of AIChE, Los Angeles, November, 1975.
"Computers in Process Design and Control," 71st Annual Meeting of AIChE, Miami, November 1978; co-chaired with Larry McCune.
"Stuart W. Churchill 60th Birthday Sessions - Transport Processes and Reaction Engineering," 88th National Meeting of AIChE, Philadelphia, June, 1980.
"Computers in Process Analysis and Design," Annual Meeting of AIChE, Los Angeles, November, 1982; co-chaired with Joseph F. Zemaitis, Jr.
"Young Faculty Forum," Annual Meeting of AIChE, Miami, November, 1986; co-chaired with Dan Luss.
"Process Simulation," Annual Meeting of AIChE, Miami, November, 1986; co-chaired with Arthur W. Westerberg.
"Separation Synthesis and Design," FOCAPD '94 Conference, Snowmass, CO, July, 1994.
Continuing Education Courses:
- Process Design and Simulation with FLOWTRAN (taught with J.D. Seader, R.R. Hughes, and A.C. Pauls) August, 1974 - July, 1977. Taught at 5 AIChE meetings.
- Computer-Aided Process Design and Simulation (taught with J. D. Seader and R.R. Hughes) since April, 1976. Taught at 57 AIChE meetings.
- Mathematical Modeling and Optimization for Process Design and Analysis (taught with J.D. Seader and R.R. Hughes) since June, 1980. Taught at 21 AIChE meetings.
- Mathematical Modeling and Optimization (taught with J.D. Seader and L.T. Biegler) since March, 1987. Taught at 25 AIChE meetings.
- Nonlinear Process Control (taught with D.R. Lewin and L.H. Ungar). Taught at 1 AIChE meeting.
- New Developments in Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Chemical Processes - Lecturer, 1974 - 1992. Taught on 19 occasions.
Professional Activities:
AIChE Director, elected for a three year term, 1984 - 1986.
AIChE Publications Committee, 1984-present; Chair, 1991 - 1992, 1994.
AIChE Educational Advisory Board, 1984 - 1992.
AIChE Education and Accreditation Committee, 1986 - present; Accreditation Visitor, 1987 - present.
AIChE Meetings Task Force, 1987-88.
AIChE Computing and Systems Technology Division, 1978 - present; Vice-Chair, 1978; Chair, 1979; Programming Chair, 1982 -1983.
Computers and Chemical Engineering - Editorial Advisory Board, 1976-present.
Computer Applications in Engineering Education - Editorial Advisory Board, 1992-present.
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research - Editorial Advisory Board, 1997-1999.
AIChE Machine Computation Committee, 1968 - 1977; Secretary, January - December, 1976; Vice-Chair, 1977.
AIChE Applied Mathematics and Information Processing Committee - Area 1d of National Program Committee, 1968 - 1977; Chair, June, 1972 - June, 1976.
AIChE Delaware Valley Section; Secretary, 1973 - 1974.
CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education) Corporation; 1971 - present; first Chair, April, 1971 - May, 1973; President, Nov., 1994 - June, 1996.
EDUCOM, Interuniversity Communications Council, Board of Trustees, October, 1974 - 1977.
Sabbatical Leaves:
1974-75 at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Worked with Lawrence B. Evans on research related to new computing systems for design and simulation of energy conversion and conservation processes.
Spring, 1983 at Danmarks Tekniske Hojskole, Lyngby, Denmark. Worked with Michael L. Michelsen on stability analysis for calculations of phase equilibria in the critical region.
Spring, 1996 at The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Worked with Daniel R. Lewin on research concerning the evaluation of controllability during process design. Appointed as Lady Davis Visiting Professor.