Phillip C. Wankat

Phillip C. Wankat is Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, and Director of Undergraduate Degree Programs in Purdues Department of Engineering Education. Wankats research interests include adsorption, large-scale chromatography, simulated moving bed systems, distillation, and engineering education. His honors include the 2005 Shreve Prize in Chemical Engineering, and the ASEEs Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogical Scholarship Award, Chemical Engineering Division. In 2004, he was named Walter L. Robb Engineering Education Senior Fellow by the National Academy of Engineering.



Phillip C. Wankat

Phillip C. Wankat is the Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include adsorption, large-scale chromatography, simulated moving bed systems, distillation, and improvements in engineering education. He received Purdue University’s highest faculty award, the Morrill Award, in 2016. With K. S. Knaebel, he contributed the Mass Transfer section to Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, Eighth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008).