About the Author

H. Scott Fogler is the Ame and Catherine Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and the 2009 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His research interests include flow and reaction in porous media, wax and asphaltene deposition, asphaltene flocculation kinetics, gellation kinetics, colloidal phenomena, and catalyzed dissolution. He has been research advisor to more than 40 Ph.D. students and has more than 200 refereed publications in these areas. Fogler has chaired ASEE’s Chemical Engineering Division, served as director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and earned the Warren K. Lewis Award from AIChE for contributions to chemical engineering education. He also received the Chemical Manufacturers Association’s National Catalyst Award and the 2010 Malcom E. Pruitt Award from the council for Chemical Research (CCR). He is the coauthor of the best-selling textbook Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2008).