Dr. F. Joseph Schork

Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
2113D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Dr. Schork received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.  Dr. Schork came to the University of Maryland from Georgia Tech, where he was a professor and associate chair in its School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He taught at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years and led the effort to revise its undergraduate curriculum.  Dr. Schork's research interests and activities include polymer reaction engineering, involving the kinetics, mathematical modeling, reactor design and control of polymerization processes.  He an accomplished author and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Polymer Reaction Engineering and has been the co-chair of the 1994 Engineering Foundation Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering. He is the recipient of the Doolittle Award for the best paper in Organic Coating and Plastics Division of the American Chemical Society, W. T. Ziegler Outstanding Teacher Award and Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Teacher Award.*

*Information obtained from the University of Maryland at http://www.chbe.umd.edu/facstaff/chair.html