UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 30, Page 6
May 4, 1995
Engineering faculty honored by named professorships
Three faculty members in the College of Engineering have been
honored with named professorships in recognition of their
distinguished and scholarly contributions as teachers and researchers.
Mark A. Barteau is the Robert L. Pigford Professor of Chemical
Engineering; Neal C. Gallagher is the Charles Black Evans Professor of
Electrical Engineering; and Michael T. Klein is the Elisabeth Inez
Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering.
"Mark Barteau has received global recognition for his research in
the area of catalysis and has an excellent reputation as a teacher,"
Stuart Cooper, dean of the College of Engineering, said. "He has
earned substantial recognition and awards for his original work on
reactions on metal oxide surfaces and palladium single crystal
surfaces.
"By combining theory and applications, Neal Gallagher has made a
number of outstanding scholarly contributions to the area of signal
processing and optics, particularly to nonlinear filters using rank
ordering and computer-generated holograms," Cooper said.
"In addition to maintaining a vigorous research program and
serving as chair of a dynamic department, Mike Klein has developed a
reputation as an excellent and innovative teacher and as a superb
mentor," Cooper said. "He is highly regarded as a researcher in the
area of chemical reaction kinetics and reaction engineering."
Named professorships are usually developed in honor of an
individual who has made a significant impact upon the institution. In
the College of Engineering, 12 faculty members and four emeriti
faculty members hold named professorships.
Mark A. Barteau
Barteau is well known for his research in catalysis and surface
science. After earning his Ph.D. at Stanford University, Barteau was a
National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut
fur Festkorperphysik at the Technische Universitat Munchen from 1981-
82.
He joined the Delaware faculty in 1982 and since then has jointly
held the position of associate director of the Center for Catalytic
Science and Technology (CCST). In 1991, he held a visiting
professorship at the University of Pennsylvania.
An NSF Presidential Young Investigator awardee in 1985, Barteau
has received the Canadian Catalysis Lecture Tour Award from the
Chemical Institute of Canada, the Emmett Award from the Catalysis
Society, the Allan P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Ipatieff Award and the Victor La
Mer Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Barteau, associate editor of Topics in Chemical Engineering, has
published more than 90 articles in professional journals. He is a
member of the Catalysis Society, AIChE and ACS.
Barteau's named professorship honors Robert L. Pigford, who
chaired the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1947-66.
The first recipient of the University's prestigious Francis
Alison Faculty Award, Dr. Pigford himself held two named
professorships-Allan P. Colburn Professor and later University
Professor, and he served on the UD Board of Trustees from 1982 until
his death in 1988.
Neal C. Gallagher
Gallagher is an exceptionally original and innovative researcher
in the areas of signal processing and optics. Gallagher has been at
the University since the summer of 1994, when he was appointed
chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
After earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University, where he also
earned two master's degrees, Gallagher was an assistant professor of
electrical engineering and applied physics at Case Western Reserve
University from 1974-76.
He moved on to Purdue University in 1976, where he was appointed
associate professor in 1979 and professor of electrical engineering in
1982.
He served at Purdue until leaving for Delaware last summer. In
1983, he took a sabbatical leave at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.
The author of more than 70 articles in professional journals,
Gallagher is a fellow of both the Optical Society of America and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member
of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Gallagher's professorship honors Charles Black Evans, secretary-
treasurer of the University's Board of Trustees from 1896-1933. Evans
Hall, home of the electrical engineering department, is named after
Evans and his father George C. Evans, a member of the Board of
Trustees from 1856 until 1904.
Michael T. Klein
Klein, recognized for his work in chemical reaction kinetics and
reaction engineering, earned his doctorate from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at Delaware in 1981 as
assistant professor of chemical engineering.
Klein's appointment at Delaware was a homecoming of sorts, since
he received his bachelor's degree from the University in 1977.
He was appointed chairperson of the Department of Chemical
Engineering in July of 1991. During his tenure, he has served as
associate dean of the college and director of the Center for Catalytic
Science and Technology.
An NSF Presidential Young Investigator awardee in 1985, Klein is
a former recipient of the ACS Delaware Section Award. He is a member
of the advisory board of the McGraw-Hill Book Series in Chemical
Engineering, associate editor of Energy and Fuels, a consulting editor
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal and associate
editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Fundamentals. He has
published more than 115 articles in professional journals, and is a
member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
AIChE and ACS.
Klein's professorship honors Elisabeth Inez Kelley, a former
faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
-Skip Cook