John L. Anderson Election Year 2024 500 Fifth Street. NAS 218 ,Washington ,DC 20001 Tel: 202-334-3201
Current Positions
President, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC, USA
Education
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, 1967.
M.S. (1969) & Ph.D. (1971), Chemical Eng., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1971-1976.
Associate Professor (1976-1979), Professor (1979-1984), Head (1983-1994), Department of Chemical Engineering, University Professor (1994-2004), Dean, College of Engineering. (1996-2004), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Provost and University Vice President, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2004-2007.
President (2007-2015), Distinguished Professor (2015-2019), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
President, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC, 2019 – 2025.
Specialties
Chemical Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Academic Administration
Awards and Honors
Fifth Berkeley Lecture, University of California, March 1989.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989.
Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1989.
National Science Foundation Commemorative Lectureship, 1989.
Holtz Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
National Academy of Engineering (Elected 1992, Councilor 2015-2019, President 2019-2025).
NWO (Dutch Research Council) Fellow, Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen, the Netherlands, 1994.
Research Scholar Award, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1995.
Barnett Dodge Lectureship, Yale University, 1997.
31st Annual W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Eng., California Institute of Technology, 1998.
Stanley Katz Lecturer 2001, City College of New York, 2001.
Blue/Green Lecturer, University of Michigan and Michigan State University, 2003.
Inaugural John A. Quinn Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.
Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Mumbai, India, 2004.
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.
National Engineering Award, American Association of Engineering Societies, 2012.
National Science Board, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama, 2014 – 2020.
Honorary Doctorates, University of Delaware (2021), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2021), Illinois Institute of Technology (2021), and Case Western Reserve University (2022).
Distinguished Career Award in Engineering, Washington Academy of Sciences, 2022.
William R. Schowalter Lecture, AIChE Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, 2022.
Honorary Doctor of Science from University of Strathclyde