Biography

Joel Plawsky

Biography - Professional

Education

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1980.

M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Sc.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

Experience

6/03 - Present,   Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

6/94 - 6/03,       Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                         Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

1988 - 6/94,    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                        Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

5/89 - 7/89,    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and

                       Director, School of Engineering Practice, Albany Station, Massachusetts

                       Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

9/86 - 8/88,    Senior Engineer, Corning Inc., Corning NY.

Patents

"Fiber Optic Probe and System for Particle Size and Velocity Measurement," U.S. Patent #4,662,749.

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Research Paper Award 1995 ASME/JSME Thermal
  
• Engineering Conference
  
• Lilly Teaching Fellowship 1991-1992
  
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary Society)
  
• Phi Lambda Upsilon (Chemistry Honorary Society)
  
• Sigma XI (Scientific Honorary Society)
  
• 1999 NASA Faculty Fellow   -   George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
  
• Best Poster Award- AMPET Conference, Huntsville, AL (Oct. 2000)
  
• 2000 NASA Faculty Fellow   -   George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
  
• Visiting Professor - TUDelft, Delft Netherlands (2002)
  
• Visiting Professor - University Space Research Association (University of Alabama-Huntsville)

Societies

• AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
  
• Optical Society of America
  
• Materials Research Society
  
• American Chemical Society
  
• American Institute of Physics

Teaching and Course Development

• Introduction to Heat Transfer
  
• Introduction to Optical Waveguides
  
• Transport Phenomena
  
• Material and Energy Balances
  
• Chemical Engineering Laboratory I&II
  
• Environmental Engineering Laboratory I&II
  
• Thermal and Fluids Engineering I
  
• Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
  
• Heat and Mass Transfer
  
• Interfacial Phenomena