Meet Our New Chairs. Fall 2017.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Pradeep K. Agrawal as the new Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Dr. Agrawal now leads a department with 17 faculty, seven full-time staff, more than 450 undergraduate and 40 graduate students—as well as a 6,500-square-foot Unit Operations Laboratory.

Dr. Agrawal is an expert in heterogeneous catalysis research, including high-temperature pyrolysis and gasification of biomass and municipal solid waste. He collaborates with industrial partners, materials scientists, and chemists to build a culture of cross-disciplinary collaboration to address major issues of environmental sustainability.

Prior to coming to Michigan Tech, Dr. Agrawal was a professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he also served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. In 2016 he was named one of the Top Ten Most Influential Persons in the Georgia Tech Alumni Survey. Dr. Agrawal also received the Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, Women in Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and W. Roanne Beard Outstanding Teacher Award, all at Georgia Tech. A member of AIChE, he was named an Outstanding AIChE Student Chapter Advisor.

He earned an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, and a BS degree in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Audra N. Morse as the new Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Dr. Morse now leads a department with 30 faculty, 34 full-time staff, and more than 500 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students who collectively conduct $6 million in annual research.

Dr. Morse is an expert in water and wastewater treatment, specifically water reclamation systems and the fate of personal products in treatment systems. She is part of a NASA research group investigating the benefits of membrane-aerated biological reactors.

Prior to coming to Michigan Tech, Dr. Morse was a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering in the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. There she served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and led the Engineering Opportunities Center. She received the two highest teaching honors at Texas Tech, the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award and the President's Excellence in Teaching Award. She earned BS and MS degrees in Environmental Engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech.