John Aunins
Tim Eggeman
Ed Fording
Ed Fording is currently retired. Prior to retirement, Ed was President of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA). From 1989 to 1998 he was President of Crompton & Knowles Colors Incorporated. Ed spend 21 years with Monsanto Company, in a series of sales and marketing positions. On a four-year leave of absence, he served as an air force officer stationed on Okinawa. In 1980 he became director of the organic chemicals department at Mobay Corporation where he spent 7 years. He joined Crompton & Knowles from the Hilton-Davis Company, where he was general manager of its Dyes Division.
Ed received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1972 and his MBA in international business from New York University in 1972. He and his wife have four grown children.
Paul Fritsch
Paul Fritsch is the Operations Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical's Baytown
Technology and Engineering Complex (BTEC). Under his responsibility are
building, laboratory, and pilot plant operations and maintenance,
ExxonMobil Chemical's research computing organization, research
automation, advanced analytics, information center, and site safety, health, and
environmental responsibility. Paul has worked in a variety of
capacities while at ExxonMobil Chemical including engineering support, business and operations management, and energy planning. Paul graduated from the
University of Kansas in January of 1991 with a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering.
Guy Green
Guy Green is chief of the Design Branch, Engineering and Construction Division, Seattle Corps of Engineers. The Design Branch is a multidisciplinary staff of engineers and architects performing designs and design during construction for civil works and military infrastructure projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Guy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1985 and a Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering from KU in 1990. Upon graduation, Guy worked for Earth Technology Corporation in Alexandria Virginia. Guy worked with Corps of Engineers offices in Baltimore and Tulsa prior to going to Seattle in 2005.
Mike Hart
Mike Hart is a 1990 graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.S. in
Chemical Engineering. After graduation, he went to work for Exxon's oil
refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he worked until 1996. While at
Exxon Mike held a variety of process engineering roles including crude
distillation units and jet fuel hydrotreating. He also spent a year
doing process design work. In 1996, Mike left Exxon and went to Basis
Petroleum in Texas City, Texas where he was a reforming engineer and a
refinery yields analyst in charge of the refinery computer PIMS model.
In 1997, Valero bought out Basis Petroleum and Mike opted to go to work
for Amoco oil refinery in Texas City, Texas. Mike spent 3 years as a
Crude Pipestills and Hydrocracking engineer before moving into Plant
Optimization as the refinery crude scheduler. In 2002, with Amoco now
merged into BP, Mike moved to the Chicago area where he has been working
within IST, the Integrated Supply and Trading group of BP. While in
IST, Mike has served as the Texas City Refinery Asset Economist and
currently is the International Crude Vessel Operator for BP's Texas City
refinery.
Zack Holland
Jim Imbler
Frank Komin
Frank Komin serves as President and General Manager of Thums Long Beach Company a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Upon graduating from KU with a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering, Frank began his career with Arco in 1978 where he worked a number of jobs including engineering, operations and management positions in the Mid-Continent, Offshore Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, Colorado, Alaskan North Slope and the Los Angeles Basin. Frank joined Occidental in 2000 as Manager of Production and Development for Thums Long Beach Company. He assumed his present position as President and General Manager in February 2001.
Frank and his wife Sharon, a 1979 Kansas State graduate, have four children and live in Huntington Beach, California.
Roy Knapp
Roy M. Knapp is the C.W. Mewbourne Professor of Petroleum & Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Roy has been at OU since 1979 serving 11.5 years as Director of the PGE school. He teaches courses in reservoir engineering and numerical methods. His research interests include microbial enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir simulation and engineering. Before he joined OU, he was on the University of Texas petroleum engineering faculty. Earlier he worked for Northern Natural Gas Company in gas supply, employee relations and operations research. Roy graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering and a Doctor of Engineering. This year, 2005-6, he is Chair of the OU Faculty Senate.
Carol Krska
Carol Krska consults on an as required basis for LaserCycle/InkCycle, Inc., a privately held manufacturing business located in Lenexa Kansas. The company was started by Rick and Carol Krska in 1992, to remanufacture toner cartridges for the household and business community. It expanded to include inkjet technology in 1997, and is now North America.s largest remanufacturer of recycled inkjet printer cartridges. From 1982-1997, Carol was employed by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technology specializing in polymer applications in electronics, metals, plating, printed wiring, board and assembly technology, materials compatibility, cleaning, failure analysis and aging evaluations as applied in electronics for nuclear weapons systems. Carol received her BS in Chemical Engineering from KU in 1982 and her MS in Chemical Engineering in 1997.
Personal: Married, three children, multiple horses, dogs, etc
Lance Lobban
Kyle Mathis
Rhonda May
David Nance
William M. Nofsinger
Bill Nofsinger is a volunteer, having retired from Nofsinger, Inc., a division of Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City, Missouri. Bill received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas, and is a member of the CPE Hall of Fame.
Prior to retiring from active engineering work, Bill was president of Nofsinger, Inc., which was formerly an independent engineering firm (The C. W. Nofsinger Company), but which was merged into Burns & Mc Donnell. Bill.s experience included being a chemical process engineer, project manager and manager of engineering prior to being named vice-president and then president.
The emphasis of Nofsinger, Inc..s work was in the chemical process industries, including chemical plants, rubber chemicals, paper chemicals, pharmaceutical,
chemicals and ethanol from corn and other crops, oil refineries and others. In some cases, the work included design-build projects in addition to engineering design only.
Bill.s volunteer activities include being a board member of the Foundation of the Metropolitan Community College Kansas City. He is very active in Rotary, having been a district governor of Rotary International for the northern third of Missouri. Other activities include grandchildren and church.
Susan Paquette
Susan Paquette is Commercialization Services Director, for 3M Health Care which encompasses new product commercialization, technology acquisition and
university relations. Susan has a broad background with experience in
business development, product development, laboratory management, market development and manufacturing support. She has worked in a variety of businesses while at 3M including the Health Care Business, Medical Division, Automotive Aftermarket Division and Commercial Graphics Division. Susan graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1978 and obtained an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in 1981. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Physiology from the University of Minnesota.
Susan lives in the Twin City area with her husband and two children.
Randy Peterson
Randy Peterson graduated from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Mr. Peterson also received a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Rockhurst College in 1994. Prior to joining STRATCO. in 1989, Mr. Peterson worked for Conoco, Inc. as a Staff Engineer in the Refining Section of the Process Engineering Division.
As Process Engineering Manager, Mr. Peterson is responsible for overseeing all STRATCO. alkylation projects through completion. This includes process design of major revamp and grassroots alkylation projects, startup, trouble-shooting, operations assistance and HF to H2SO4 conversion designs. DuPont purchased the STRATCO. Alkylation business in January, 2003.
Carlos Rocha
Dr. Lanny Schoeling P.E.
Lanny Schoeling is Vice President of Engineering and Technology Development for Kinder Morgan CO2 Company, currently responsible for Engineering in the Yates and SACROC Fields in Texas. Previously he was Chief Reservoir Engineer for unconventionals at Shell E&P, responsible for managing the Integrated Subsurface Team that develops innovative models of new processes. In the past he has been responsible for evaluation of potential CO2 candidates throughout the domestic USA. He was responsible as project manager of several initiatives; 1) the Enhanced Coalbed Methane Initiative, and 2) the California CO2 Initiative. His previous job assignment prior to Shell was Director of the North Midcontinent Regional Lead Organization, a part of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC). In conjunction with his past directorship, he also provided technical expertise to the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project as an enhanced oil recovery engineer. Duties included heavy emphasis on reservoir simulation and evaluation for enhanced oil recovery, design, and implementation of enhanced oil recovery processes. He holds a Doctorate of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering, Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering, and a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry. He is a professional engineer in Texas and Kansas. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and was a distinguished lecturer in 1996 for SPE, author of numerous SPE papers, and a preliminary Speaker at the 2000 SPE-DOE Improved Oil Recovery Meeting.
James E. Smith
Jim currently works for Devon Energy Co., Oklahoma City, OK as Reservoir
Engineering Supervisor, Mid-Continent District and Permian District. He has a
Very strong, broad background in oil and gas exploration and production with primary focus on reservoir engineering and economic evaluations. Jim has gained this experience by working in the industry since 1977. In addition to Devon Energy, Jim has worked for several other companies including Marathon Oil Co. Kerr-McGee Corp, Fina Oil & Chemical Co. and ARCO Oil and Gas Co. Jim received his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, 1976 and his M.S. Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, 1977.
Robert H. Smith
Bob Smith has a B.S. from Kansas State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, all in chemical engineering. He has taken management courses at The University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University and has completed the engineering management program at Harvard Business School and the executive management program at the University of Michigan.
Bob is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has served as chairman, vice chairman, secretary and publicity chairman of the Dallas section. He was recipient of the Dallas Section Engineer of the Year Award in 1980. He has served on the executive board of the Engineering Construction Division and on the board of directors for the AIChE.
He has received the College of Engineering Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and was inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 2000 at Kansas State University. He was inducted into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Hall of Fame at the University of Kansas in 2000.
He spent 38 years in various aspects of the petroleum and petrochemical industry including research and development, plant operations and engineering and construction. He retired from Black & Veatch in 2000 where he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Process Division. During his career he published eight papers and received 16 patents.
Susan Williams
Susan Williams graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1994. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1999. Susan joined the KU faculty in the fall of 1999. Her teaching emphasis includes reaction engineering, materials and energy balances, introduction to computation and programming, and catalysis/surface science. She has an active research program specializing in catalysis for the production of alternative fuels, specifically looking at gas to liquids, hydrogen production, and bio-based fuels. She and her husband Michael have two children, Samantha (4) and Michael (2).
Laurence R Weatherley
Laurence Weatherley received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for research on ion exchange kinetics in macroporous resins. He then worked in industry in the United Kingdom as a practicing chemical engineer for six years before joining Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland where he was faculty member in Chemical and Process Engineering. In 1992 he was appointed to an endowed chaired professorship at the Queens University of Belfast, the DuPont Chair of Process Engineering where he took a leadership role as convenor of a $2.5M Clean Technology and Environmental Processes demonstration project as a development of the Queens University Environmental Research and Technology Center. The project was a major vehicle for research and technology transfer between the university and industry. In 1997 the Center won the Queens Award for Innovation in Higher Education in the UK. In 1998 he accepted the position of chaired professor and head of chemical engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He took his current role as chair and Spahr Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kansas, USA in 2004. Dr Weatherley.s research interests are in the area of liquid-liquid systems, process intensification, water treatment and enzymatic biotransformation. He has published over 200 research papers and articles. He is currently Editor of a leading international research journal, the Chemical Engineering Journal where his responsibilities cover the environmental chemical engineering section of the journal. Dr Weatherley is a chartered professional engineer, is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand.
