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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 e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~mvk2