2024 Ensor Lectureship – presented by Dr. Mark A. Barteau
About the event
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mark A. Barteau is a Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Charles D. Holland ‘53 Chair and previously served as the Vice President for Research. He was the Director of the University of Michigan Energy Institute from 2012 to 2018. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Delaware, where he held appointments as the Robert L. Pigford Endowed Chair of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006, and the National Academy of Inventors in 2018. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford. He was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow at the Technische Universität München, before joining the University of Delaware faculty in 1982. His research, presented in more than 250 publications and a similar number of invited lectures, focuses on chemical reactions at solid surfaces and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis and energy processes. He has also contributed perspectives on energy, environment, economics, and policy to The Conversation , Fortune , The Hill, and NPR, among other media outlets.
Dr. Barteau was named in 2008 as one of the “100 Engineers of the Modern Era” by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He is a fellow of both AIChE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received numerous awards, including the 2018 Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering, the 2001 Alpha Chi Sigma Award, and the 1991 Allan P. Colburn Award, presented by AIChE; the 1998 International Catalysis Award, presented by the International Association of Catalysis Societies; the 1995 Ipatieff Prize from the American Chemical Society; the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, given by the North American Catalysis Society, and the 1993 Canadian Catalysis Lecture Tour Award of the Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He has served as associate editor of the AIChE Journal and WIRES Energy and Environment, and on the editorial boards of a number of other Journals, including Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research and the Journal of Catalysis.
ABOUT THE LECTURE
The Ensor Lecture in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering was established in 2016 to encourage communication and collaboration on emerging ideas in any area related to chemical engineering, bioengineering, aerosol technology and nanotechnology. David Ensor (’63, chemical engineering) and his wife, Sara, established the lectureship as a reflection of their deep interest in higher education and their strongly held belief in the empowerment that education provides for one’s life.