UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 22, Page 1
February 29, 1996
Stanley I. Sandler elected to national academy

     Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical
Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering,
one of the highest professional awards in the field. Only 150 of
approximately 50,000 practicing chemical engineers have received this
distinction.
     Membership honors those who have made "important contributions to
engineering theory and practice" and who have demonstrated "unusual
accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of
technology." Sandler was honored for his work in developing new
applications of thermodynamics to chemical process design and for his
contributions to education.
     Statewide, there are 11 members of the National Academy of
Engineering in Delaware, and seven have UD ties.
     Others at the University, who have received the award include
Kenneth Bischoff, Unidel Professor of Chemical Engineering; Arthur B.
Metzner, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering; G.
Alexander Mills, retired research faculty; T.W. Fraser Russell, Allen
P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering; Jin Wu, H. Fletcher
Brown Professor of Marine Studies; and Gianni Astarita, visiting
professor, associated with both the University of Delaware and the
University of Naples.
     The total of six academy members affiliated with the chemical
engineering department is among the highest among state universities;
the the University of Illinois also has six and the University of
California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin each have five.
     Sandler received his bachelor's degree from the City College of
New York and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
     He joined the Delaware faculty in 1967, served as the interim
dean of the college in 1992 and currently is the director of the
Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics.
     During his career, he has been a visiting professor at the
Technical University of Berlin, the University of California at
Berkeley, the University of Queensland in Australia, the Universidad
Nacional Del Sur in Argentina and Imperial College in London.
     Among his honors, he was elected a fellow of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1993, received the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation Distinguished U.S. Senior Scientist Award and the
3M Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award, American Society for
Engineering Education, both in 1988.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure