Erdem has about 40 publications in various peer-review journals and prestigious trade and conference articles. Dr Erdem currently is Vice President of R&D at Rust-Oleum Corporation. He joined Epoxy Specialty Business of Hexion Specialty Chemicals as technology leader in 2010 leading NA R&D team for global new technology development and becamey Global R&D Director of Hexion’s Epoxy Specialties Business for Coatings, Civil Engineering and Fiber Sizing segments. He worked for Dow Chemical Company for 11 years working in Polyurethanes, Emulsion Polymers and finally in Dow Coating Materials Businesses as Global Technology Leader for Automotive Coatings. at Lehigh University with a Degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from Emulsion Polymers Institute. Awards include 1984 NASA Inventor of the Year Award, 2002 Tess Award in Coatings ACS – Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE), the 2007 Fellow of the ACS – PMSE, the 1988 Eleanor and Joseph Libsch Research Award, in recognition of outstanding research at Lehigh University, and Lehigh University’s 1999 Hillman Extraordinary Service Award.īedri Erdem earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry from Karadeniz (Blacksea) Technical University. Delivered numerous invited lectures at national and international conferences.ĭegrees include BS & MS from Alexandria University, Egypt Ph.D. Advised 67 & co-advised 32 PhD students, 53 Masters and 31 postdocs. Authored more than 400 articles, edited 5 books and holds 9 U.S patents.
Pioneered the field of miniemulsions and related polymer latex systems. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Chairman of Chemical Engineering Department, Director of Emulsion Polymers Institute, Director of Center of Polymer Science and Engineering, and Director of the NSF Polymer Interfaces Center.Īreas of research interest include polymer colloids, emulsion polymerization, latex particle morphology, film formation, surfactants and colloidal stability.
Served Lehigh over the past 45 years as Vice President for International Affairs, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of P.C. Mohamed El-Aasser, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University. He serves on the technical advisory board of GreenCentre Canada, whose mandate is to commercialize emerging green chemistry innovations originating from academic research, and is Chair of the International Polymer Colloids Group. He is the recipient of the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award, presented by Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (awarded to a resident of Canada who has made a distinguished contribution in the field of chemical engineering before the age of 40) and the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, and is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada. His research program involves the study of polymer colloids, carbon dioxide switchable polymers, living radical polymerization, and the graft modification of natural polymers such as chitosan and cellulose nanocrystals. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Waterloo, he spent six years in the Xerox Corporate Research Group before accepting a faculty position at Queen’s. Michael Cunningham is a Professor of Chemical Engineering (with a cross-appointment to the Department of Chemistry) at Queen’s University, Canada. Course Overview | Course Schedule | Abstracts | Lecturer Bios
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