Donald L. Katz Lectureship

Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

The lectureship is named in honor of the late Donald L. Katz, who was Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Katz was an inspiring teacher, outstanding leader, and imaginative invest-igator in the field of Chemical Engin-eering and Petroleum Technology. He was recipient of 24 national and international awards for his technical achievements and public and professional service, including election to the National Academy of Engineering and a citation and award of the National Medal of Science by President Reagan in 1983.

Professor Katz attended the University of Michigan, earning B.S. (1927), M.S. (1932), and Ph.D. (1933) degrees in chemical engineering: he completed his doctorate under the direction of G.G. Brown. After working at Phillips Petroleum for three years, he joined the University of Michigan faculty. During his tenure on the Michigan faculty, he supervised 39 doctoral students, was department chair for ten years (1951-1961), served on (and chaired for three years) the Ann Arbor Board of Education (1948-1957), was President of the AIChE (1959), and Chairman of EDUCOM (1971-1972). He also served some 60 industrial and governmental organizations as a consulting engineer during his professional life. Professor Katz's extraordinary accomplishments in petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, underground gas storage, heat transfer, and phase behavior resulted in publication of nearly 300 papers, ten books, nine monographs, and nine patents.

Professor Katz remained active in consulting and writing until a few weeks before his death in May, 1989. His final book, Natural Gas Engineering Production and Storage, co-authored with Robert L. Lee, was published by McGraw Hill in January, 1990.

1971 Professor R. Byron Bird University of Wisconsin (Inaugural Lectureship)	1990 Professor J.D. Seader University of Utah
1972 Professor Neal R. Amundson University of Minnesota	1991 Professor Keith E. Gubbins Cornell University
1973 Professor Arthur E. Humphrey University of Pennsylvania	1992 Professor Matthew Tirrell University of Minnesota
1974 Professor J.R.A. Pearson Imperial College of Science and Technology, London	1993 Professor Stuart W. Churchill University of Pennsylvania
1975 Professor Riki Kobayashi Rice University	1994 Professor Richard M. Felder North Carolina State University
1976 Professor Cedomir M. Sliepcevich University of Oklahoma	1995 Professor Robert A. Brown Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1977 Professor Rutherford Aris University of Minnesota	1996 Professor Edward E. Cussler University of Minnesota
1978 Professor James W. Westwater University of Illinois-Urbana	1997 Professor John M. Praunitz University of California, Berkeley
1979 Professor Robert S. Schechter University of Texas-Austin	1998 Centennial Symposium
1980 Professor Lawrence B. Evans Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1999 Professor Douglas A. Lauffenburger Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981 Professor John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology	2000 Professor Donald R. Paul University of Texas at Austin
1982 Professor Thomas F. Edgar University of Texas-Austin	2001 Professor Alice P. Gast Stanford University
1983 Professor Joe D. Goddard University of Southern California	2002 Professor Klavs F. Jensen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1984 Professor Alexis T. Bell University of California, Berkeley	2003 Professor Jerome S. Schultz University of Pittsburgh
1985 Professor John A. Quinn University of Pennsylvania	2004 Professor Robert S. Langer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1986 Professor L. E. Scriven University of Minnesota	2005 Professor Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University
1987 Professor Daniel I.C. Wang Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2006 Professor David V. Boger University of Melbourne
1988 Professor H. Ted Davis University of Minnesota	2007 Professor Mark A. Barteau University of Delaware
1989 Professor Bruce C. Gates University of Delaware	2008 Professor James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin 2008 Katz Lectureship

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