H. Scott Fogler

Biography

 H. Scott Fogler is the Ame and Catherine Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was the 2009 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Professor Scott Fogler received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universitat Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain in April 2016, and earned a Diploma in 1985 from the New Orleans School of Cooking. He enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate chemical reaction engineering courses, and a graduate-level course on strategies for creative problem solving. In 1996, he was recipient of the Warren K. Lewis award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for contributions to chemical engineering education. Professor Fogler recently finished a 2-year assignment on the President Obama’s commission to study and make a recommendation on the flow of diluted bitumen in the Keystone Pipeline. Scott Fogler is the author of the 12 books, including the Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 5th Edition, and Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, which are estimated to be used by 70-80% of all chemical engineering programs in the United States and is dominant also in the world-wide market. Fogler and Professor Steven LeBlanc are co-authors of Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, which won Meriam-Wiley Distinguished Author Award from ASEE in 1996. A research monograph “Migration of Fines in Porous Media,” co-authored by K. Khilar, was published by Kluwer in 1998. Forty-five PhD students have graduated from his research group. Fogler and his students are well known for their work on the application of fundamental chemical reaction engineering principles to the petroleum industry. They have published over 240 research articles, in an areas such as acidization of petroleum wells, upstream engineering gelation kinetics, wax deposition in subsea pipelines and asphaltene flocculation and deposition kinetics. Other research interests include: flow assurance, reaction engineering, colloids, colloidally induced fines migration, and asphaltene stability multiphase flow. In addition to funding by government agencies, an industrial affiliates program has supported the research on flow and reaction problems in the petroleum industry. Over the last 10 years alone over four million dollars have been provided by nine oil companies to support his affiliates program. Many research results from this affiliate program have been implemented in industry. Scott Fogler has received a number of distinguished awards at college, university, and national levels. From the University of Michigan he received the Class of 1938 Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1971, the Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 1971, the Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 1972, the Phi Lambda Upsilon Teaching and Leadership Award in 1977, the Excellence in Research Award in 1980, the Ame and Catherine Vennema Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering in 1984, and the Stephen S. Attwood Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in 1995, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1996 and the Thurnau Professorship in 2006. At the national level he was featured as Ch.E. Educator in Chemical Engineering Education in 1978 and received the Chemical Engineer of the Year Award from the Detroit Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 1980. He received the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Corcoran Award for Best paper (shared) in 1992 and in 1994 he was named a fellow of AIChE and elected to a three-year term as director of AIChE. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Warren K. Lewis award from the AIChE for contributions to chemical engineering education and in 1999 he received the National Catalyst Award from the Chemical Manufacturers Association. In 2009 he was elected president of AIChE and in 2010 he received the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award from the Council for Chemical Research. Scott has been the recipient of 13 named lectureships, the inaugural Adler Lectureship at Case Western (1994), the McCabe Lectureship at North Carolina State (1994), the inaugural Tis Lahiri Lectureship at Vanderbilt (1995), the Harry G. Fair Lectureship at Oklahoma (1996), the Merck Sharp & Dohme Lectureship at the University of Puerto Rico (1997), the Phillips Lectureship at Oklahoma State (1997), the Johansen-Crosby Lectureship at Michigan State (1999), the Academy of Chemical Engineers Lectureship, University of Missouri-Rolla (2003), the Merck Distinguished Lecture, Rutgers University, (2004), the Krug Lecture, University of Illinois (2004), Dineen Lecture, University of New Brunswick (2011), Zandmer Lecture University of Calgary (2012), McKetta Lecture, Trine University (2015), and the Centennial Lecture, Lafayette College for the Chemical Engineering 100th anniversary (2015).

Research Interest

Over the last 20 years Professor Fogler has focused his research on problems in upstream research with focus on asphaltene and paraffin deposition. He has graduated 45 Ph.D. students from his research group and has published over 240 research articles. He and his students are well-known for their work in chemical reaction engineering in petroleum engineering, which encompasses a number of fundamental chemical engineering areas, specifically; reaction engineering, colloids, and multiphase flow. Research topics include: flow, reaction and precipitation; kinetics of wax deposition; fused chemical reactions; gelation kinetics; asphaltene deposition kinetics and remediation; colloidal phenomena; and catalyzed dissolution of minerals. In addition to funding by government agencies, an industrial affiliates program that has been in existence for over 35 years. In the past,  the affiliates consisted of 9 major oil companies that provide $50,000 each. A number of research results are now being used in industrial applications.