Faculty

 Education:

• Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
  Chemical Engineering

• M.S., University of Texas, Austin
  Chemical Engineering

• B.S., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  Chemical Engineering

Personal Homepage:

• http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/bequette/»

Professional Background:

Dr. Bequette worked for three years as a process engineer for American Petrofina between his undergraduate and graduate studies. From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Texas and from 1987 to 1988 he was a Visiting Lecturer with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Davis. He joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1988 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and Professor in 2000. Dr. Bequette has spent sabbaticals at Merck Research Laboratories and Northwestern University.

Dr. Bequette has had many leadership roles in American Control Conference activities, serving as the Finance Chair (1991), Publications Chair (1995), Publicity Chair (1998), Program Chair (2001) and General Chair (2003). He was the AIChE Director on the Board of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) in 2000-1, and is currently President of the AACC for 2008-9. Dr. Bequette also served as the Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) division of AIChE in 2006. He was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers in 2007.

Dr. Bequette is the author of Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (1998) and Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation (2003), both published by Prentice Hall. He was an Associate Editor of Automatica (1993-2005) and served as the Guest Editor of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (February, 2005), for a Symposium on Algorithms for Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Control. Dr. Bequette edited two special issues on Process Control for IEEE Control Systems Magazine (Aug. & Dec., 2006). He is a founding member of the editorial board for the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, and co-edited three special issues of the journal in 2007.

Awards:

• Member, Tau Beta Pi