Phillip R. Westmoreland

Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North CarolinaState University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research focuses on reaction kinetics and engineering, obtained from experiments, computational chemistry and reactor modeling. His Chemical Engineering degrees are fromN.C. State (BS73), LSU (MS74) and MIT (PhD86). From 1986-2009, Phil was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in 2006-2009 he served as a Program Director at NSF.
He was 2013 AIChE President; is a Trustee and past president of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation; and was founding Chair of AIChE’s Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum. He is a Fellow of AIChE.
His awards include AIChE's Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, ASEE's Corcoran Award, the NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's David Shirley Award.

Why is a BS, MS, or PhD not enough?
ChE is far too broad for any undergrad or graduate program to be able teach everything a new professional needs. There are so many different industries and fields. The BSChE covers a number of valuable, explicit skills with a lot more powerful concepts to build on. In MS or PhD research, you achieve much greater depth and insight into your chosen project and its field, yet inevitably you will need to broaden and deepen your knowledge as your career progresses.
Hear it from new professionals
In this series, you'll hear from a number of new ChE professionals, each about one to two years past graduation. They'll describe the type of work and responsibilities they've had in their work to date, as well as the skills or expertise they needed or had to learn that go beyond what they learned as students. You'll also hear from their mentor or a senior person offering their perspective on the skills or expertise that new professionals must learn. Some of the people you'll hear from include Lane Daley at Eastman Chemical, who is working with reactive distillation; Mariam al-Meer of Shell Qatar, who works with the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids process; Jon Haughton of Ingredion, a food ingredients company where he works as a product manager/marketer; and biotechnologists, fab engineers, new faculty, astronauts, attorneys, physicians, and people working in government.
What skills did you have to earn that you didn't learn in school?
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