2022 Award Recipient
CEO at PSE for SPEED
The use of computers in chemical engineering education and application to solution of industrial problems has been the focus of recently retired Professor Rafiqul Gani’s career at the Technical University of Denmark for more than 30 years. Professor Gani has specialized in the development of systematic computer aided methods/tools, including state of the art group contribution-based property prediction models, computer-aided molecular (product) design, process synthesis/design toolbox, product/process modeling toolbox and many more. These tools have been successfully disseminated to industry and educational institutions around the world through textbooks, papers, case studies, workshops and special courses.
Award Description
This award, sponsored by the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation, is presented for significant contributions in the development of computer aids for chemical engineering education.
About Thomas Edgar
Professor Edgar was the President of the CACHE Corporation in 1982 and 1983 as well as the Executive Director from 2000 until 2017.
Former Award Recipients
The Thomas and Donna Edgar CACHE Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education Award is merit-based and nomination-based and, as such, is not necessarily awarded every year.
| Year | Awardee | Awardee Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Rafiqul Gani | PSE for SPEED |
| 2021 | John Falconer | University of Colorado |
| 2020 | Matthew Liberatore | University of Toledo |
| 2019 | H. Scott Fogler | University of Michigan |
| 2018 | Jennifer Sinclair Curtis | University of California, Davis |
| 2016 | Milo Koretsky | Oregon State University |
| 2015 | George Stephanopoulos | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2014 | Jim Henry | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga |
| 2013 | Edward M. Rosen | Monsanto Company (retired) |
| 2012 | Stanley Sandler | University of Delaware |
| 2011 | Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. | Bucknell University |
| 2010 | Duncan Mellichamp | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2009 | Brice Carnahan | University of Michigan |
| 2008 | Bruce A. Finlayson | University of Washington |
| 2007 | Lorenz T. Biegler | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2006 | James M. Douglas | University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| 2005 | David M. Himmelblau | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2004 | J.D. Seader | University of Utah |
| 2003 | Arthur W. Westerberg | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2002 | Ernest J. Henley | University of Houston |
| 2000 | Mordechai Schacham | Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
| 1997 | Douglas Cooper | University of Connecticut |
| 1996 | Kenneth Jolls | Iowa State University |