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Dr. William Josephson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering
Tel: 334.844.2483
Fax: 334.844.2063

Office Address
235 Ross Hall

Mailing Address
212 Ross Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5127


A Short Intro

    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.

Recent Publications & Presentations

    I made 3 presentations at the 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah:
      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
    Last year I also made a presentation at Tuskegee University's annual TUBE conference:
      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

Some Stuff That Interests Me

    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.


A shot of Tiger VI, Auburn's flying mascot, in action before the Ole Miss game of 8 SEP 01


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