BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart, professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University, holds the Amoco Endowed Chair, and has experience in both industry (13 years) and academe (26 years). He was Head of the School from 1997 to 2008 (and 2011 to 2012).

Russ is President of the American Automatic Control Council (www.a2c2.org), the association of professional societies that represents the US automation community to the world association. He is a 2001 fellow of the International Society of Automation (www.ISA.org), and served as Editor-in-Chief of ISA Transactions (1998-2011). He is a CONTROL Automation Hall of Fame inductee, received the 2009 ISA Distinguished Service Award, and 2013 Fray International Sustainability Award.

His 1968 B.S. in Chemical Engineering and subsequent M.S. in Nuclear Engineering are both from the University of Maryland. His 1985 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering is from North Carolina State University.

He is coauthor of the textbook, Applied Engineering Statistics, and has authored six handbook chapters on modeling, process control, and optimization. He published about 60 journal articles, over 75 full-paper refereed periodical or conference papers, and three patents. He has books in progress on nonlinear regression, optimization, and model-based control.

Presently, Russ teaches, optimization, and process control courses; and has developed short courses and workshops related to nonlinear regression, nonlinear model-based control, statistical process control, and instrument and control systems. He has taught the unit operations laboratory, fluid dynamics, heat exchange, process modeling, transport phenomena, computer programming, engineering economics, and process design courses.

He is the faculty advisor the interdisciplinary, 70-member, ISA Student Section at OSU, which received the 2013 Section Excellence Award (1 of about 600 sections) from the international organization.

Russ' industrial experience provides perspectives on what is practicable, and his research experience reveals what is possible. His work seeks to bridge that gap, to discover sustainable technology.