I am a full-time faculty member of Auburn’s Chemical Engineering Department. I have an equal mix of industrial and academic experience; my industrial experiences were in the pulp & paper industries. My research interests continue to be pulp & paper related. I also have an interest in the topic of engineering education: I have helped to revamp curriculums at the institutions I have been associated with and am deeply involved in teaching the use of practical methodologies to our students. I really enjoy the teaching aspects of my job and am active in assisting various Outreach efforts such as A.U.'s TIGERs camps and the BEST robotics competitions.

Food Experiments in the Unit Operations Lab - co-authors were M. Biswas, L. Kelley & D. Mills

Explosive Decompression in the Unit Operations Lab - sounds scary but this was about our Mentos & Diet Coke experiment!

When Things Go Wrong - co-authors were J. Krishnagopalan & D. Mills

Getting To Know You... (You & Your Calculator) - the typical engineering calculator of today costs about $100 and is more powerful than the personal computers that were on the scene when I was an undergrad; in this talk I explained some of the usually untapped features of the calculators used by engineering students

Go On A Tiger Hunt At one time (2000 or 2001) the city of Auburn tried to emulate cities that have a bunch of animal sculptures of a single theme; you know, like the cows that roam the urban plains. Anyway, despite Auburn's reputation as a cow college, it was decided to build tiger sculptures and make them available for various groups to customize them as they pleased. Some interesting and other not-so-interesting designs resulted and the statues were all placed in the Toomer's Corner area. All well and good until various tigers were stolen, vandalized, you get the picture. I think that there was one house of students that was caught with 5 tigers in their possession. Anyway, the powers that be decided that it would be a good idea to relocate the tigers to more secure pastures. So, if you see a tiger statue now it's likely to be in a location that's a) not easily accessible (like the roof of the high school) or b) somewhat guarded (like outside the city fire department). If you ever pay a visit to Auburn keep your eyes open and see how many of these tigers can you find?

A Paratrooper's Faith Images of and the text from the classic "little book" given out to our nation's paratroopers

2008 Grad Pictures Here are some pictures of 8 seniors who graduated from our fine program in May 2008. I especially like the one of McCracken rehearsing his jump. The pictures are compressed from their original size of 3000x2000 pixels so there's a bit of quality loss when you're viewing them on a monitor. However, the original picture files can be downloaded with no loss of quality; each file is about 1.5 MB.