Biographical Information

Professor Curl received a S.B. (ChE, 1951) and a Sc.D. (ChE, 1955) both from MIT. Curl has taught an abundance of chemical engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and has recently retired as the "Manager of Brown Industries" (ChE 460, Chemical Engineering Laboratory I ). Professor Curl has received the Phi Lambda Upsilon award for excellence in teaching.

Rane Curl previously worked for Shell Development Company from 1955 to 1961 and taught at both the University College London and Technische Hogeschool Eindover in the Netherlands.

Research Interests:

Mathematical modeling: Recent applications in adsorption, bioreactors, drug delivery and process control.

Karst Geodynamics: Karst systems display interactions of hydrodynamic, chemical kinetic, mass transfer and structural processes. Studies have explored transport on dissolution roughness, kinetics of calcite dissolution, speleothem morphology and geochronology, and "fractal" properties of stratigraphic porosity.

Last Updated: Jan. 1997