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| Honorary
Degree Recipients Dr. Octave Levenspiel |
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Name: Dr. Octave Levenspiel Residence: Corvallis, Oregon Position: Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University Degrees: B.S. (1947), Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley M.S. (1949), Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University Ph.D. (1952), Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University |
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| Dr. Octave Levenspiel is
emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. His primary
interest is in chemical reactors, and his teaching, writing and research aim at finding
general principles and methods for designing these units. Dr. Levenspiel's other broad
areas of interest concern heat exchangers and how to make the world of thermo-dynamics
understandable. His pioneer book Chemical Reaction Engineering was the first in the field. It has numerous foreign editions and has been translated into 10 foreign languages. Today, after 37 years, it remains the standard and most widely used book, worldwide, on the subject. Other books by Dr. Levenspiel are The Chemical Reactor Omnibook, Fluidization Engineering (co-author), Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange, and Understanding Engineering Thermo. Dr. Levenspiel has lectured widely and has received numerous acknowledgments for his professional achievements, including the Education Lectureship Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and two awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering and the Lewis Award for distinguished and continuing contributions to chemical engineering education. He has also received an honorary doctorate degree from the National Polytechnic of Lorraine, France, for his "international outstanding scientific reputation," and he has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Of his numerous writings and research papers, two have been selected as Citation Classics by the Institute of Scientific Information. But of all his accomplishments, he says what pleases him most is being called the "Dr. Seuss" of chemical engineering. |
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