Dr. John P. Congalidis from DuPont  has been selected as the 2010  CAST 10B

(Systems and Process Control) programming coordinator.   According to 

the CAST

rotation policy, every third year, the program co-ordinator is selected

from industry.



With John's selection, the CAST 10B program co-ordinator list is as follows:



Robert Young, ExxonMobil (2007)

Mayuresh Kothare, Lehigh U. (2008)

Masoud Soroush, Drexel U. (2009)

John Congalidis, DuPont (2010)





Please join me in congratulating Dr. Congalidis for  accepting the 

responsibilities

of this position. His biosketch is provided below.





John P. Congalidis is currently a Research Planning Fellow with DuPont 

Central

Research and Development at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, DE. He

received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical

University of Athens, Greece in 1976 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from

MIT in 1981. He joined DuPont in 1981 and has had various technical and

supervisory assignments in Research and Development, Manufacturing, and at

the DuPont European Technical Center. He has published several papers in

refereed journals and has been an invited speaker in conferences and

universities in the areas of polymer reaction modeling and process 

control. He is

a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Delaware and the 

recipient of

three DuPont Engineering Excellence Awards.









Mayuresh V. Kothare

R. L. McCann Associate Professor

Chemical Process Modeling and Control 

Research Center

Department of Chemical Engineering

Lehigh University, D322 Iacocca Hall

111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, U.S.A.

Tel: (610) 758 6654; Fax: (610) 758 5057

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URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~mvk2