On April 10, 2013, the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering will host a symposium to honor Amyn Teja, Regents' Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech. Teja, who joined the School as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1980, officially retired from his position as Regents’ Professor and Grassman Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering in June 2012, although he still continues to teach and advise graduate students.

Teja received his BS and PhD degrees from Imperial College London and taught at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom before taking up his position at Georgia Tech. He has authored nearly 300 articles and made more than 200 presentations, based on his research on thermodynamic properties and separations, as well as nanomaterials. He is an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Fellow and received the Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the AIChE in 2002.

All Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the symposium, which will feature eminent speakers such as John Prausnitz, Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley; E. Dendy Sloan, University Professor Emeritus at the Colorado School of Mines; Stan Sandler, H.B. duPont Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware; and Ralph Diguilio, Vice President of Research and Development for Performance Products at Huntsman Corporation.

Schedule

1:15 - 1:30 p.m.: Welcoming Remarks

1:30 - 2:15 p.m.: John Prausnitz

2:15 - 3:00 p.m.: E. Dendy Sloan

3: 00 - 3:30 p.m.: Break

3:30 - 4:15 p.m.: Stanley Sandler

4:15 - 5:00 p.m.: Ralph DiGuilio

5:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Amyn Teja

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Reception