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Education:
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Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Engineering
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M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Engineering Practice
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B.S., University of Michigan
Chemical Engineering
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Professional Background:
Experience: - 6/03 - Present, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- 6/94 - 6/03, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- 1988 - 6/94, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- 5/89 - 7/89, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Director, School of Engineering Practice, Albany Station, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
- 9/86 - 8/88, Senior Engineer, Corning Inc., Corning NY.
Prior to joining Rensselaer, Plawsky spent two years as a senior engineer at Corning, Inc. He then served as an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering and as director of the School of Engineering Practice, Albany Station, at MIT. He became a member of Rensselaer's Department of Chemical Engineering in the fall of 1988. Plawsky was a NASA Faculty Fellow in 1999 and 2000, a visiting professor at Delft University of Technology in 2002, and a visiting professor at the National Space Science and Technology Center in 2003.
Awards:
Plawsky earned a Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 1991 and was awarded the Outstanding Research Paper Award in 1995 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME/JSME) Thermal Engineering Conference. He is a member of three honorary societies: Tau Beta Pi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Sigma XI and five professional societies: the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Optical Society of America, the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute of Physics. Plawsky also holds patents for a fiber optic probe and system for particle size and velocity measurement, and for polymer/xerogel integrated optical waveguides.
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