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MAX S. PETERS is currently Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and
Dean Emeritus of Engineering’ at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the Pennsylva-
nia State University, worked for the Hercules Power Company and the Treyz
Chemical Company, and returned to Penn State for his Ph.D. Subsequently, he
joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, and later came to the University
of Colorado as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and
Professor of Chemical Engineering. He relinquished the position of Dean in
1978 and became Emeritus in 1987.
Dr. Peters has served as President of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, as a member of the Board of Directors for the Commission on
Engineering Education, as Chairman of the President’s Committee on the
National Medal of Science, and as Chairman of the Colorado Environmental
Commission. A Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr.
Peters is the recipient of the George Westinghouse Award of the American
Society for Engineering Education, the Lamme Award of the ASEE, the Award
of Merit of the American Association of Cost Engineers, the Founders
Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the W. K. Lewis
Award of the AIChE. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
KLAUS D. TIMMERHAUS is currently Professor of .Chemical Engineering
and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He
received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Illinois. After serving as a process design engineer for the
California Research Corporation, Dr. Timmerhaus joined the faculty of
the University of Colorado, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical
Engineering. He was subsequently appointed Associate Dean of the College of
Engineering and Director of the Engineering Research Center. This was fol-
lowed by a term as Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department. The

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