The Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

The lectureship is named in honor of the late Donald L. Katz, who was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan for many years. Dr. Katz was an inspiring teacher, outstanding leader, and imaginative investigator in the field of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Technology. He was recipient of 24 national and international awards for his technical achievements and public and professional service, including election to the National Academy of Engineering and a citation and award of the National Medal of Science by President Reagan in 1983.

Professor Katz attended the University of Michigan, earning B.S. (1927), M.S. (1932), and Ph.D. (1933) degrees in chemical engineering: he completed his doctorate under the direction of G.G. Brown. After working at Phillips Petroleum for three years, he joined the University of Michigan faculty. During his tenure on the Michigan faculty, he supervised 39 doctoral students, was department chair for ten years (1951-1961), served on (and chaired for three years) the Ann Arbor Board of Education (1948-1957), was President of the AIChE (1959), and Chairman of EDUCOM (1971-1972). He also served some 60 industrial and governmental organizations as a consulting engineer during his professional life. Professor Katz’s extraordinary accomplishments in petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, underground gas storage, heat transfer, and phase behavior resulted in publication of nearly 300 papers, ten books, nine monographs, and nine patents.

Professor Katz remained active in consulting and writing until a few weeks before his death in May, 1989. His final book, Natural Gas Engineering Production and Storage, co-authored with Robert L. Lee, was published by McGraw Hill in January, 1990.

Past Recipients

1971 Professor R. Byron Bird University of Wisconsin (Inaugural Lectureship)	1997 Professor John M. Praunitz University of California, Berkeley
1972 Professor Neal R. Amundson University of Minnesota	1998 Centennial Symposium
1973 Professor Arthur E. Humphrey University of Pennsylvania	1999 Professor Douglas A. Lauffenburger Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1974 Professor J.R.A. Pearson Imperial College of Science and Technology, London	2000 Professor Donald R. Paul University of Texas at Austin
1975 Professor Riki Kobayashi Rice University	2001 Professor Alice P. Gast Stanford University
1976 Professor Cedomir M. Sliepcevich University of Oklahoma	2002 Professor Klavs F. Jensen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1977 Professor Rutherford Aris University of Minnesota	2003 Professor Jerome S. Schultz University of Pittsburgh
1978 Professor James W. Westwater University of Illinois-Urbana	2004 Professor Robert S. Langer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1979 Professor Robert S. Schechter University of Texas-Austin	2005 Professor Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University
1980 Professor Lawrence B. Evans Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2006 Professor David V. Boger University of Melbourne
1981 Professor John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology	2007 Professor Mark A. Barteau University of Delaware
1982 Professor Thomas F. Edgar University of Texas-Austin	2008 Professor James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin
1983 Professor Joe D. Goddard University of Southern California	2009 Professor Mark E. Davis California Institute of Technology
1984 Professor Alexis T. Bell University of California, Berkeley	2010 Carol K. Hall North Carolina State University
1985 Professor John A. Quinn University of Pennsylvania	2011 Jens K. Nørskov Stanford University
1986 Professor L. E. Scriven University of Minnesota	2012 Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
1987 Professor Daniel I.C. Wang Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2013 Michael F. Doherty University of California, Santa Barbara
1988 Professor H. Ted Davis University of Minnesota	2014 Kristi S. Anseth University of Colorado at Boulder
1989 Professor Bruce C. Gates University of Delaware	2015 Babatunde A. Ogunnaike University of Delaware
1990 Professor J.D. Seader University of Utah	2016 David A. Tirrell California Institute of Technology
1991 Professor Keith E. Gubbins Cornell University	2017 Paula A. Hammond Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992 Professor Matthew Tirrell University of Minnesota	2018 Emily A. Carter Princeton University
1993 Professor Stuart W. Churchill University of Pennsylvania	2019 Zhenan Bao Stanford University
1994 Professor Richard M. Felder North Carolina State University	2022 Linda J. Broadbelt Northwestern University
1995 Professor Robert A. Brown Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Professor Edward E. Cussler University of Minnesota