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Singapore taps Sandler for professorship
3:56 p.m., Oct. 12, 2006--Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering at UD, will be working in three different academic jobs on three continents this year. In addition to serving on the UD faculty and as Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia where he was the Miegunyah Fellow during his 2003 sabbatical, Sandler recently received another honor as newly appointed ExxonMobil Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). “This year, I will take University of Delaware students to the University of Melbourne for Winter Session courses; in the summer I spend a month at the University of Singapore, and then I have my 'real job' here at the University of Delaware,” Sandler said. Sandler's expertise is in thermodynamics, the purification and separation of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and supercomputer simulation. According to the announcement of the appointment from NUS, Sandler will work in “the area of molecular engineering of transport and thermodynamics in nanostructured materials,” enhancing NUS's program in “the synthesis of nanostructured, functionalized materials and process engineering modeling.” Following a three-week stay at NUS, Sandler said he was impressed by the faculty and facilities there, the research and instructional laboratories, the extent of government funding, the teaching and research infrastructure the university provides and the computational facilities and virtual learning environment for students. “One of my goals is to encourage ties between Delaware and Singapore,” he said. “I also would like to bring some of the innovations used at NUS to the University of Delaware.” NUS has been ranked as ninth in the world in engineering and IT by The Times of London and 10th in terms of technical publications by the Institute for Scientific Engineering in 2005. Sandler has received worldwide recognition during his distinguished career. He has been invited to lecture in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has served as a visiting professor at the Imperial College in London, the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Queensland in Australia, the University of California at Berkeley and the National University of the South in Argentina. Among his many honors, Sandler received the 2004 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Founder's Award for lifetime contributions to the field, was elected a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in Great Britain, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, received the E.V. Murphee Award from the American Chemical Society, the Warren K. Lewis Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Distinguished U.S. Senior Scientist Award, the 3M Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award by the American Society for Engineering Education and CHEMCON's Hikai Distinguished Lectureship Award and medal in India. At UD, he received the Francis P. Alison Award, the University's highest faculty award, in 1993. Sandler is the author or editor of more than 350 articles and 10 books, including his text book, Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, now in its fourth edition, and serves as editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In addition, he serves or has served on numerous editorial and departmental external advisory boards and as a consultant to chemical companies. His recent National Research Council and consulting activities include advising on the destruction of chemical weapons and the treatment of low-level radioactive wastes. A graduate of the City College of New York with a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Sandler joined UD's faculty in 1967. Article by Sue Moncure |
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