Staff Members
Co-operating Faculty
Douglas Bousfield
Professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering
Director of Paper Surface Science Program
Areas of interest: Fluid mechanics, rheology, numerical methods, coating
processes
Albert Co
Associate Professor
of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Areas of interest: Polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics,
rheology, transport phenomena, applied numerical methods
Wiliam J. DeSisto
Assistant Professor
of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Areas of interest: Chemical vapor deposition of conducting metal oxide
films, in-situ chemical sensors for chemical vapor deposition
processing, highly spin-polarized materials for magnetoelectronics,
porous thin film filters for chem./bio sensors
Darrell Donahue
Associate Professor
of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Areas of interest: Bio-processing design and evaluation, statistical
process control and analysis, and computer simulation of manufacturing
processes
Joseph M. Genco
Professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering
L.C. Calder Professor of Pulp and Paper Science and Engineering
Cooperating Professor of Forest Resources
Former Director, Pulp & Paper Process Development Center
Areas of interest: Oxygen delignification, refining, pulping, pulp
bleaching
David J. Neivandt
Assistant Professor
of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director of Product Development, PDC
Areas of interest: Determination of the orientation and conformation of
interfacial species, surface spectroscopies/microscopies
Hemant Pendse
Chair and Professor
of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director of Industrial Process Control Sensor Systems Program
UM Pulp & Paper Foundation Faculty Fellow
Areas of interest: Sensor development, colloid systems, particulate and
multiphase processes, pulp and paper manufacture
Douglas M. Ruthven
Professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering
Areas of interest: Fundamentals of adsorption and adsorption processes
Adriaan van Heiningen
Professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering
J. Larcom Ober Professor of Chemical Engineering
Areas of interest: Selectivity improvement during oxygen and ozone
bleaching, rate processes and modeling of char bed burning, effect of
fiber properties on paper wetting
Barbara J.W. Cole
Professor of Chemistry
Areas of interest: Wood chemistry, oxygen bleaching, photoyellowing
Raymond C. Fort, Jr.
Professor of Chemistry
Areas of interest: Organic chemistry, molecular modeling of organic and
biomolecules, wood/pulping chemistry
Barry Goodell
Professor of Wood
Science and Technology
Areas of interest: Wood deterioration and microbiology, biotechnical
processing of wood materials, wood preservation
Robert Rice
Professor of Wood Science and Technology
Areas of interest: Wood physics, wood drying, forest products marketing,
neural network processing in the industrial environment
Stephen Shaler
Professor of Wood Science and Technology
Areas of interest: Wood mechanics, microstructure modeling and
measurement, microscopic scale experimental mechanics
Jody Jellison
Professor of Biological Sciences
Areas of interest: Wood physics, wood drying, forest products marketing,
neural network processing in the industrial environment
The support staff offers a combination
of educational experience to make it easy to accommodate client needs
for reliability and timely evaluations. We can be reached at:
Process Development Center
Contact: Betty Ingraham
Tel: 207-581-2281 Fax: 207-581-4174
Department of Chemical and
Biological Engineering
Contact: Cathy Dunn
Tel: 207-581-2277 Fax: 207-581-2323
University of Maine Pulp & Paper
Foundation
Contact: Faye Woodcock-Murray
Tel: 207-581-2295 Fax: 207-581-2000
Department of Industrial
Cooperation:
Contact: Jonnie Johnson
Tel: 207-581-2201 Fax: 207-581-1479
