Peter C Wayner Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Northwestern University, 1963)
M.S. Chemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
B.S. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1956)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (Northwestern University, 1963)
M.S. Chemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
B.S. Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1956)
Biography
June 1956 - Sept. 1958 Communications Officer, United States Navy;
1959 - 1960 (Summer) Research Engineer in Textile Fibers Dept., E.I. du Pont de Nemours;
March 1963 - August 1965 Research Scientist engaged in heat transfer studies, United Aircraft Corporation Research Laboratories;??
August 1965 Joined the Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;?
1976 - (Summer) Chemist/Chemical Engineer, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory;
Sept. 1976 - July 1977 Sabbatical leave at Stanford University in Chemical Engineering and at NASA Ames Research Center (Heat Pipe Research Program);
1985 Chairman, Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers;?
1987 Sabbatical visit to National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, and to Oxford University, Oxford, England;
1988 Technical Program Chairman, National Heat Transfer Conference-Houston;
1989 Vice Chair and Secretary, National Heat Transfer Conference Coordinating Committee;?
1988 Chairman, Donald Q. Kern and Max Jakob Award Committees;
1986 - 1988 Consulting Editor, Chemical Engineering Progress;?
1988-1998 Member, U.S. Scientific Committee for 9th and10th and Delegate to the Assembly for the 11th International Heat Transfer Conferences;
Sept. 1965 - Dec. 1997 Assistant-, Associate-, Full Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
1998- 2008 Distinguished Research Professor; Currently Professor Emeritus.
June 1956 - Sept. 1958 Communications Officer, United States Navy;
1959 - 1960 (Summer) Research Engineer in Textile Fibers Dept., E.I. du Pont de Nemours;
March 1963 - August 1965 Research Scientist engaged in heat transfer studies, United Aircraft Corporation Research Laboratories;??
August 1965 Joined the Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;?
1976 - (Summer) Chemist/Chemical Engineer, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory;
Sept. 1976 - July 1977 Sabbatical leave at Stanford University in Chemical Engineering and at NASA Ames Research Center (Heat Pipe Research Program);
1985 Chairman, Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers;?
1987 Sabbatical visit to National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, and to Oxford University, Oxford, England;
1988 Technical Program Chairman, National Heat Transfer Conference-Houston;
1989 Vice Chair and Secretary, National Heat Transfer Conference Coordinating Committee;?
1988 Chairman, Donald Q. Kern and Max Jakob Award Committees;
1986 - 1988 Consulting Editor, Chemical Engineering Progress;?
1988-1998 Member, U.S. Scientific Committee for 9th and10th and Delegate to the Assembly for the 11th International Heat Transfer Conferences;
Sept. 1965 - Dec. 1997 Assistant-, Associate-, Full Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
1998- 2008 Distinguished Research Professor; Currently Professor Emeritus.
Peter Wayner has won the following awards:
1998 AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division Award;
1998 AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award;
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers;
Tau Beta Pi;
Pi Delta Epsilon;
Phi Lambda Upsilon;
First Team All American Lacrosse, 1956;
Melvin Romanoff Award from National Association of Corrosion Engineers for Best Paper (Materials Performance, 23, #4, April 1984);
Best Paper Award at the 4th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference in March 1995.
Research Interests
Transport Phenomena with an emphasis on interfacial phenomena. Currently PI of an experiment on the International Space Station.