UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 8
October 24, 1996
Stanley I. Sandler receives AIChE award

     Stanley I. Sandler, H.B. du Pont Professor of Chemical
Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Warren K. Lewis Award
from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
     The award, which recognizes distinguished and continuing
contributions to chemical engineering education, will be
presented to Sandler at AIChE's annual meeting Nov. 11 in
Chicago. It includes $5,000 plus a $500 travel allowance and is
sponsored by Exxon Chemical Co. and the Exxon Research &
Engineering Co.
     Awards are based on success as a teacher as established by
both competence in subject matter and the ability to inspire
students and colleagues to high achievement, contributions of
lasting educational influence, such as superior textbooks,
lectures and laboratory techniques or models, impact upon the
education of chemical engineering students as a result of
creative ability and leadership in administering a department or
equivalent group.
     Other past winners of the Warren K. Lewis Award with ties to
the University of Delaware include the late Prof. Robert Pigford;
Arthur B. Metzner, H.F. Brown Professor Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering; and James Wei, former professor of chemical
engineering; as well as UD graduates James Douglas,  Delaware
'60, and J. Larry Duda, Delaware '50.
     Sandler joined the University faculty as an assistant
professor in 1967 and was named a professor in 1973. He served as
chairperson of the chemical engineering department from 1982 to
1986 and was interim dean of the College of Engineering in 1992.
He also has been a visiting professor at the University of
California-Berkeley, University of Queensland in Brisbane,
Australia, Technische Universitat Berlin in Germany, Imperial
College in London, England, and Universidad Nacional Del Sur in
Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
     Sandler is the author of Chemical and Engineering
Thermodynamics, a widely translated undergraduate textbook, and
is the author or editor of seven other books and more than 200
technical papers on thermodynamics and phase equilibria. Sandler
has served as a consultant for numerous companies and has been on
more than a dozen editorial and advisory boards. The data and
models he develops in his research are widely used in industrial
design.
     An AIChE fellow since 1993, Sandler has received numerous
awards, including AIChE's 1984 Professional Progress Award and
the American Society for Engineering Education's Chemical
Engineering Lectureship Award in 1988.  He was awarded the
Alexander Humboldt Foundation Distinguished U.S. Senior Scientist
Award in 1988 and was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering earlier this year.
     AIChE was founded in 1908 and is a nonprofit organization
providing leadership to the chemical engineering profession.
Representing 59,000 members in industry, academia and government,
AIChE provides forums to advance the theory and practice of the
profession, upholds high professional standards and ethics and
supports excellence in education.
                                                  -Jennifer Bevan