Biography

Joel Plawsky

Biography - Professional

Education

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1980.

M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Sc.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

Experience

6/03 - Present,   Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

6/94 - 6/03,        Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

1988 - 6/94,      Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                         Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

5/89 - 7/89,      Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and

                        Director, School of Engineering Practice, Albany Station, Massachusetts

                        Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

9/86 - 8/88,      Senior Engineer, Corning Inc., Corning NY.

Patents

7,621,668   Methods and apparatus for handling or treating particulate material
6,832,036   Siloxane optical waveguides

4,662,749   Fiber Optic Probe and System for Particle Size and Velocity Measurement

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Research Paper Award 1995 ASME/JSME Thermal
  

• Engineering Conference
  

• Lilly Teaching Fellowship 1991-1992
  

• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary Society)
  

• Phi Lambda Upsilon (Chemistry Honorary Society)
  

• Sigma XI (Scientific Honorary Society)
  

• 1999 NASA Faculty Fellow   -   George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
  

• Best Poster Award- AMPET Conference, Huntsville, AL (Oct. 2000)
  

• 2000 NASA Faculty Fellow   -   George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
  

• Visiting Professor - TUDelft, Delft Netherlands (2002)
  

• Visiting Professor - University Space Research Association (University of Alabama-Huntsville)

• Best Paper Award – 2008 Comsol User’s Conference

• 2009 AIChE Herbie Epstein Programming Award

• Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Societies

• AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)

• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
  

• Optical Society of America
  

• Materials Research Society
  

• American Chemical Society
  

• American Institute of Physics

Teaching and Course Development

• Introduction to Heat Transfer
  

• Introduction to Optical Waveguides
  

• Transport Phenomena
  

• Material and Energy Balances
  

• Chemical Engineering Laboratory I&II
  

• Environmental Engineering Laboratory I&II
  

• Thermal and Fluids Engineering I
  

• Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
  

• Heat and Mass Transfer
  

• Interfacial Phenomena

• Kinetics