Department of CHEMICAL
ENGINEERING
|
C.
Stewart Slater Henry
M. Rowan College of Engineering |
Education:
Ph. D., Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
Rutgers University (1983)
M. Ph., Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University (1983)
M.S., Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University (1982)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University (1979)
Honors and
Awards:
2012 South Jersey Biz Green Award, 2012
Rutgers Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement in Academia
Dr. Slater was selected in 2009 as a Featured
Educator in Chemical Engineering journal. See the following
feature article in Chemical Engineering Education Winter 2009 issue.
2009 Environmental Quality Award (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency),
2007 Rowan University Wall of Fame, Excellence in Teaching, 2007 Excellence in
Advising, Rowan University Person of the Week (September 18, 2005 and September
22, 2002), 2002 Fellow Member (ASEE), 2000 Campus Representative Membership
Award (ASEE), 1999 New Jersey General Assembly Citation (4th
Legislative District, June 30, 1999), 1999 Chester F. Carlson Award (ASEE),
1999 Joseph J. Martin Award (co-recipient) (ASEE), 1999 Campus Representative
Membership Award (ASEE), 1999 ASEE Middle Atlantic Meeting Best Paper Award
(ASEE), 1998 Joseph J. Martin Award (co-recipient) (ASEE), 1997 Campus
Representative Membership 
Award (ASEE), 1996
Campus Representative Membership Award (ASEE), 1996 George Westinghouse Award
(ASEE), 1995 Campus Representative Membership Award (ASEE), 1993 Outstanding
Campus Representative (ASEE), 1993 Centennial Certificate (ASEE), 1992 John
Fluke Award (ASEE), 1992 DELOS Best Paper Award (ASEE), 1989 Dow Outstanding
Young Faculty Award (ASEE), 1987 New Engineering Educator Excellence Award
(ASEE), 1986 Ralph R. Teetor Award (SAE)
Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Slater has research and teaching interests
in separation and purification technology, green engineering and sustainable
design, and investigating novel processes for interdisciplinary fields such as
pharmaceutical engineering, biotechnology and green engineering. His area of
specialization is membrane processes. He has authored over 100 papers and
several book chapters. He has a background in liquid separations such as
reverse osmosis and ultra/microfiltration, and pervaporation processes. He is
involved in process research and development, system design and separations
applications to various chemical processing industries. He has conducted
industrial workshops on green engineering and membrane technology.
Dr. Slater is active in the field of green
engineering and supported by funding from U.S. EPA for both curriculum
development and pollution prevention partnerships with industry. He has
developed green engineering
education modules for chemical engineering courses and led national
workshops. He is working with the chemical process industries such as the pharmaceutical,
petrochemical, and specialty chemicals to investigate green engineering approaches
to pollution prevention through the use of separation processes; assessed with
life cycle metrics. His work on green chemistry and engineering in
pharmaceutical development and manufacture was recently featured in C&EN.
He is an educational outreach partner of the NSF ERC on Structured Organic
Particulate Systems investigating pharmaceutical manufacturing technology. He
recently collaborated on a U.S. DOE project investigating downstream separation
processes for the conversion of algal biomass to biofuels and bioproducts.
Dr. Slater has research interests in
engineering education involving funded research in laboratory and curriculum
development. He has held national office in several divisions of the American
Society for Engineering Education. During 2003 he served as Chair of the
Chemical Engineering Division. He currently serves as Chair of the Publications
Board of Chemical Engineering Education journal. He has conducted educational
and research workshops for ASEE, NSF, AIChE and NATO.
As Founding Chair of the Chemical Engineering
Department, he led the efforts to establish the Department in 1995, shortly
after the historic gift from Henry and Betty Rowan. Prior to joining Rowan, has
was a faculty member at Manhattan College where he was active in chemical
engineering curriculum development and established a laboratory for advanced
separation processes with the support of the National Science Foundation and industry.
He has worked as a Process Development Engineer for The Procter & Gamble
Courses
Taught
Fall
Semester - Heat
Transfer Processes
Fall Semester - Junior and Senior Engineering
Clinic I
Spring Semester - Separation
Processes II
Spring Semester - Junior and Senior
Engineering Clinic II
Selected
Publications
C.S. Slater, M.J. Savelski, P. Kostetskyy, M.
Johnson, Shear-enhanced Microfiltration of Microalgae in a Vibrating Membrane
Module, Clean Technologies and
Environmental Policy, 17, 1743-1755, 2015.
A.V. Struck Jannini, C.S. Slater, M.J. Savelski, Experiments in Pharmaceutical
Engineering for Introductory Courses, Chemical
Engineering Education, 48, 239-249, 2014.
E.J. Cavanagh, M.J. Savelski, C.S. Slater, Optimization of Environmental
Impact Reduction and Economic Feasibility of Solvent Waste Recovery using a New
Software Tool, Chemical Engineering
Research & Design, 92, 1942–1954, 2014.
C.S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, M.N. Ruiz-Felix, Life Cycle Analysis of Solvent Reduction in
Pharmaceutical Synthesis using Continuous Adsorption for Palladium Removal, Journal of Environmental Science and
Health, Part A, 48, 1602-1608, 2013.
D. O’Connell, M.J.
Savelski, C.S. Slater, Life Cycle Assessment of Dewatering Routes for Algae
Derived Biodiesel Processes, Clean
Technologies & Environmental Policy, 15, 567–577, 2013.
D. Shonnard, A. Lindner,
N. Nguyen, R. Subamatram, D. Fichana, R. Hesketh,
Green Engineering: Integration of Green Chemistry, Pollution Prevention, and
Risk Based Considerations, Chapter 5, in Handbook
of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology, 12th, J. Kent, ed., Springer
Publishers, New York, 155-200, 2012.
C.S. Slater, M.
Savelski, G. Hounsell, D. Pilipauskas, F. Urbanski,
Green Design Alternatives for Isopropanol Recovery in the Celecoxib Process, Clean Technologies & Environmental
Policy, 14(4) 687-698, 2012.
C.S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, T.M. Moroz, M.J. Raymond, Pervaporation as a Green Drying Process for
Tetrahydrofuran Recovery in Pharmaceutical Synthesis, Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, 5(1), 55-64, 2012.
K. McIver, K. Whitaker,
V. DeDelva, S. Farrell, M. J. Savelski, C. S. Slater,
Introductory Level Problems Illustrating Concepts in Pharmaceutical Technology,
Advances in Engineering Education,
2012, 3(1), 1-21.
C.S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, Partnerships with the Pharmaceutical Industry to Promote
Sustainability, World Transactions on
Engineering and Technology Education, 9, 6-11, 2011.
M.J. Raymond, C.S.
Slater, M.J. Savelski, LCA Approach to the Analysis of Solvent Waste Issues in
the Pharmaceutical Industry, Journal
of Green Chemistry, 12, 1826-1834, 2010.
C.S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, W.A. Carole, D.J.C. Constable, Solvent Use and Waste Issues, Chapter
3, in Green Chemistry in the
Pharmaceutical Industry, P. Dunn, A. Wells, T. Williams, Eds., Wiley-VCH Verlag Publishers, Weinheim,
Germany, 49-82, 2010.
M.J. Savelski, C.S.
Slater, C.A. Del Vecchio, A.J. Kosteleski, S.A. Wilson, Development of Problem
Sets for K-12 and Engineering on Pharmaceutical Particulate Systems, Chemical Engineering Education,
44, 50-57, 2010.
C. S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, Towards a Greener Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment, Innovations in Pharmaceutical Technology,
29, 78-83, 2009.
D. Sujo,
L.A. Scodari, C.S. Slater, K. Dahm,
M.J. Savelski, Retrofit of Sour Water Networks in Oil Refineries: A Case Study,
Chemical Engineering & Processing,
48, 892–901, 2009.
C.A. McGinness,
C.S. Slater, M.J. Savelski, Pervaporation Study for the Dehydration of
Tetrahydrofuran - Water Mixtures by Polymeric and Ceramic Membranes, Journal of Environmental Science and
Health, Part A, 43, 1673-1684, 2008.
C.S. Slater, M.J.
Savelski, A Method to Characterize the Greenness of Solvents used in
Pharmaceutical Manufacture, Journal of
Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 42, 1595-1605, 2007.
Recent
Research Projects
Sustainable P2 Design for Batch-based Specialty Chemical Manufacture,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, C.S. Slater, PI, w/ M.J. Savelski
(co-PI), 2014-2016
Sustainable Design Toolbox for Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing, US Environmental Protection Agency, C.S. Slater, co-PI with M.J.
Savelski (PI), 2011-2014
Life Cycle Modeling
of eco-MeTHF and eco-THF as Green Solvents, Pennakem,
C.S. Slater, PI w/ co-PI M.J. Savelski, 2011-2012.
Life Cycle Analysis of Pregabalin,
Pfizer, Inc. co-PI with M.J. Savelski (PI), 2010-2011.
High Purity Solvent Recovery, Pfizer, Inc. co-PI with M.J. Savelski (PI), 2009-2010.
Algae to Ethanol Research and Evaluation,
U.S. Department of Energy, co-PI with K. Jahan (PI), Robert Hesketh (co-PI),
William Riddell (co-PI), Mariano Savelski (co-PI), 2010-2015.
Advancing
Pollution Prevention in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, US Environmental
Protection Agency, PI w/ co-PIs M.J. Savelski and R.P. Hesketh, 2007-2010.
Development of Educational Modules in Structured
Organic Particulate Systems (Pharmaceutical Technology), National Science
Foundation - 
Engineering Research Center for Structured
Organic Particulate Systems, M.J. Savelski, (PI), S. Farrell, Z.O Gephardt,
C.S. Slater (co-PIs), 2008-2014.
Solvent Recovery and Life Cycle Assessment in
Drug Manufacture, Pfizer, M.J. Savelski, (PI), C.S. Slater (co-PIs), 2007-2008,
2009-2010.
Workshop on Green Engineering and
Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry, US Environmental Protection
Agency, PI w/ co-PIs M.J. Savelski and R.P. Hesketh, 2007-2009.
Illustrating
Bioseparations Using Colorful Proteins, National
Science Foundation, B.G. Lefebvre (PI), C.S. Slater and S. Farrell (co-PIs),
2007-2010.
Pervaporation as a Green Drying Process in
Pharmaceutical Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, PI w/co-PI’s M.J. Savelski
and R.P. Hesketh, 2006-2007.
Green Engineering
Pharmaceutical Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, PI w/ co-PIs
R.P. Hesketh and M.J. Savelski, 2005-2007.
Green Engineering Metrics in Pharmaceutical
R&D, Bristol-Myers Squibb, PI w/co-PI’s M.J. Savelski and R.P. Hesketh,
2005-2006.
Engineering Clinics to Advance Pollution
Prevention, US Environmental Protection Agency, PI w/ co-PIs R.P. Hesketh and
M.J. Savelski, 2005-2007.
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