Chair, UCLA Chemical
& Biomolecular Engineering Department
5549
Boelter Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
Phone:
(310) 206-0300, E-mail: vasilios@ucla.edu, Fax: (310) 206-4107
Dr. Manousiouthakis received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTUA in Greece, and his MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from RPI in Troy, N.Y. He has been with UCLA for over twenty years, has served as Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Committees, Director of the UCLA/NSF/DoEd. PhD Pollution Prevention Fellowship Program, and is the Director of UCLA’s HERC (Hydrogen Engineering Research Consortium). His research and teaching interests are in the area of process systems engineering with emphasis on the hydrogen economy, green manufacturing and semiconductor manufacturing. He has introduced the scientific concepts of Mass Integration and Infinite DimEnsionAl State-space (IDEAS) as conceptual frameworks for process network synthesis and green manufacturing. Specific research interests are: Reactor Modeling, Simulation and Optimization; Process Network Synthesis; Hydrogen Production; Mass/Heat/Power Integration; Pollution Prevention/Waste Minimization; Global Optimization; Constrained/Nonlinear/Decentralized/Optimal Control.
Dr. Manousiouthakis is a recipient of the NSF PYI Award (1988), the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (1989), and the AIChE Ted Petersen Best Paper Award (1998, 2001). He has placed 10 of his PhD/Postdoctoral students in faculty positions in the US and abroad.