Faculty

 Education:

• Ph.D., Northwestern University
  Chemical Engineering

• M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Chemical Engineering

• B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Chemical Engineering

Personal Homepage:

• http://www.rpi.edu/~wayner»

Professional Background:

June 1956 - Sept. 1958 Communications Officer, United States Navy 3912, Sasebo, Japan

1959 - 1960 (Summer) Research Engineer in Textile Fibers Dept. (exploratory research on synthetic fibers) E.I. du Pont de Nemours

March 1963 - August 1965 Research Scientist engaged in heat transfer studies, United Aircraft Corporation Research Laboratories

August 1965 Joined the Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1976 - (Summer) Chemist (Chemical Engineer) Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Sept. 1976 - July 1977 Sabbatical leave at Stanford Universit (Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering); NASA Ames Research Center (Contract Researcher for Heat Pipe Research Program)

1985 Chairman, Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

1987 Sabbatical visit to National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, and to Oxford University, Oxford, England

1988 - 1989 1988 Technical Program Chairman, National Heat Transfer Conference-Houston; 1989 Vice Chair andSecretary, National Heat Transfer Conference Coordinating Committee

1988 Chairman, Donald Q. Kern Award Committee; Chairman, Max Jakob Award Committee

1986 - 1988 Consulting Editor, Chemical Engineering Progress

1988-1998 Member, U.S. Scientific Committee for 9th and10thand Delegate to the Assembly for the 11th International Heat Transfer Conferences

Sept. 1965 - Dec. 1997 Assistant-, Associate-, Full Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jan. 1998- to date Distinguished Research Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Awards:

• Member, Tau Beta Pi
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers