Hamid Arastoopour, Dean, College of Engineernig, IIT

Hamid Arastoopour is presently Max McGraw Professor of Energy, Environment and Economics, and Dean of Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1985, he has been a member of the chemical engineering faculty at IIT, where he served as chairman of the department from 1989 to 2003. He began his research activities at the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) in the experimental measurement, mathematical modeling and simulation of pneumatic conveying and fluidized bed systems associated with coal conversion and gasification processes, Storage of Gas in Underground Reserves, production of Natural Gas from Unconventional sources such as: Tight sand and Gas Transmission and Distribution. His research expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of multiphase flow and particle technology—an area motivated by energy and environmentally related applications, Gas Engineering, Renewable Energy, Simulation and design of processes such as: Desalination, Pulverization, Gas storage and Crystallization and documented in more than 100 publications and 12 U.S. patents. He is currently on the editorial board of the /Powder Technology Journal/. He has received several awards from American Society of Chemical Engineering (AIChE ) including the Donald Q. Kern Award in Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion, the Fluor Daniel Lectureship in Fluidization and Fluid/Particle Systems, the Ernest W. Thiele Award, and the Fluidization Process Recognition Award. He is also a Fellow of AIChE.