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H. Scott Fogler Festschrift Preface
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since 1984), and as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor since 2003 for his outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Scott has received many accolades during the course of his distinguished career. He was recognized as a University of Colorado Distinguished Alumnus in 1988 and was named a Fellow of AIChE in 1994. He served as National President of AIChE in 2009. He received the Warren K. Lewis Award from AIChE in 1995 for his contributions to engineering education. He has been the recipient of 10 named lectureships and has delivered invited lectures in 25 countries worldwide. As an undergraduate Scott studied reaction engineering with Professor Max Peters at the University of Illinois. While there, he met Jan Meadors on a blind date as a sophomore. Following graduation, Jan and Scott married and followed Peters to the University of Colorado where Scott worked on his doctorate degree with Professor Klaus Timmerhaus on the effect of ultrasonic waves on mass transfer. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1965, he was hired by Professor Stuart Churchill, then department chairman of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan. Having deferred his military service to earn his Ph.D. and to teach his first year at Michigan, he was then assigned to Fort McArthur in
e are very pleased to present this Festschrift to honor Professor H. Scott Fogler of the University of Michigan on the occasion of his 75th birthday and his 50th year on the Michigan faculty. How does one describe Scott Fogler? Boundless energy, extremely creative, consummate professional, skillful at asking the right questions to get to the heart of a problem, excellent mentor, compassionate leader with vision, dependable colleague··· all these things and more. Anyone who knows Scott knows the excitement he can impart when he has gotten an idea. His passion for discovery is palpable and impossible to resist. It is an essential part of what makes him an outstanding educator and contributes to the successes that he has enjoyed over the years. How did Scott get to where he is today, celebrating a half-century as a chemical engineering professor at the University of Michigan? Scott was born on October 28, 1939 in Normal, Illinois. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1962, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1963 and 1965, respectively. In 1965, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he completes his 50th year of service in 2015. Scott has served the UM College of Engineering in a variety of roles: as a chemical engineering faculty member, as the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, as the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering (1985−1990), as a Chaired Professor (the Ame and Catherine Vennema Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering © 2015 American Chemical Society
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the flow of diluted bitumen in the Keystone Pipeline, which he served for two years. Scott and Jan celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2012 with a party on Mackinac Island, Michigan, organized by their children Peter, Robert, and Kristin. Scott credits Jan for much of his career success, from helping to improve his writing to her wise advice throughout the years. She accompanied him on many of his travels around the globe and shared his love of gourmet cooking. In 1985 Scott received a diploma from the New Orleans School of Cooking, meaning he not only completed the course, but sent in a photograph of a creole meal he cooked for family and friends upon his return. We would be remiss to not include some of his contributions to the teaching of Chemical Engineering. He has authored or coauthored 10 textbooks, including Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, fourth edition, and Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering. These textbooks have dominated the world market for the past 25 years. Currently they are used in an estimated 75% of the chemical engineering programs worldwide and have helped to prepare generations of chemical engineers. Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, which he coauthored with Professor Steven LeBlanc of the University of Toledo, brings together problem solving and troubleshooting techniques that prepare students to tackle the real-world problems they’ll encounter in the workplace. Scott Fogler is the consummate chemical engineering professor. He excels in all areas important to engineering educators: teaching (author of world-renowned textbooks), research (significant ground-breaking research in upstream engineering) and professional service (AIChE Fellow, National AIChE President). He trains his students to be innovative professionals, leaving the University of Michigan with the tools and creative skills to make a difference in the world. Many generations of chemical engineering students owe a debt of thanks to Scott for helping them become better engineers. So, thank you, Scott, from all of your students, for showing us how to become the best we can be.
San Pedro, California, and attached to the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, where he researched solid rocket fuels. During his army leave time he taught at the UCLA Engineering Extension Program in the evenings. Some students in his class worked at Chevron, and he was asked to consult with Chevron on the acidization of oil wells. The relationship with Chevron has lasted many years and served as the initial basis for Scott’s successful Industrial Affiliates Program which helped to support his research for over 35 years. Scott’s consulting work with 15 companies over these past 35 years greatly contributed to the real-world applicability of much of his group’s research. Scott credits his early graduate students with establishing a research direction investigating flow and reaction in porous media for the Fogler research group. These early projects set the direction for Scott’s career-long interest in upstream engineering in the petroleum industry. Those key initial students and their projects were Kasper Lund (Scott’s first graduate student), the Acidization of Sandstone; Simon Li, Ultrasonic Emulsification; and William Kline, the Dissolution of Silicate Minerals by Hydrofluoric Acid. These projects helped to define effective oil well stimulation methods to increase production. Additionally, the results led to an overall understanding of mineral dissolution regimes: reaction rate limited and mass transfer, as well as the important mixed regime in which both mechanisms are significant, and the definition of an “acid capacity number” which is used to design regimens for petroleum well stimulation. Scott, his 49 masters students, 44 doctoral students, and two current graduate students have published over 225 research articles, the majority of which are on the application of chemical engineering principles to upstream petroleum engineering. While Scott feels all his graduate students made major research advances in their theses, the ones mentioned by name below added new areas to the group’s research direction. Scott’s time as a Fulbright scholar in Norway in 1974−75 resulted in incorporating fines migration into his research programs where his work with graduate student Kartic Khilar led the way for other Ph.D. theses in this area. Studies he began during a sabbatical at the Institute for Surface Chemistry in Sweden in 1982 led to the work of graduate student Mark Hoefner, who initiated research that led to the identification of three structures in acidized porous calcium carbonate cores: face dissolution, conical wormhole structure, and ramified worm structures. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Scott’s work focused heavily on colloids and emulsion stability. Graduate student Chia-Lu Chang began work on asphaltenes, the continuation of which is ongoing to this day. The late 1990s saw the start of work on wax deposition, led by graduate student Probjot Singh who did a summer internship on this topic with Mobil Oil. His thesis generated several Ph.D. topics in wax deposition such as the fused chemical reactions, which are delayed for a predetermined time before reacting, to remediate wax blockages in subsea pipelines. The time delay allows the exothermic reaction to take place at the blockage, melting the wax. Careful work by Tabish Maqbool in the late 2000s led to the realization that there is no such thing as onset concentration for asphaltene precipitation, but rather that the time to detection of asphaltene particles is a function of the amount of precipitants added. In recognition of this body of work Scott received the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award from the Council for Chemical Research in 2010, and his expertise was sought for President Obama’s commission to study and make a recommendation on
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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