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Professor Prodromos Daoutidis from the University of Minnesota has been selected as the 2011 CAST 10B (Systems and Process Control) programming coordinator. According to the CAST rotation policy, this year the program coordinator was selected from academia. With this selection, the CAST 10B program coordinator list is as follows: Mayuresh Kothare, Lehigh U. (2008) Masoud Soroush, Drexel U. (2009) John P. Congalidis, DuPont (2010) Prodromos Daoutidis, U. of Minnesota (2011) Please join me in congratulating Professor Daoutidis for accepting the responsibilities of this position. His biosketch is provided below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Prodromos Daoutidis is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received a Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering (1987) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, M.S.E. degrees in Chemical Engineering (1988) and Electrical Engineering: Systems (1991) from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering (1991) from the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty at Minnesota since 1992, having served as Director of Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering (1998-2004) and Chair of the Physical Sciences Policy and Review Council (2000-03), while he has also held a position as Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004-06). He is the recipient of several research and teaching awards and recognitions, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Ted Peterson Award of CAST, the George Taylor Career Development Award, the Mc-Knight Land Grant Professorship, the Ray D. Johnson / Mayon Plastics Professorship and the Shell Chair at the University of Minnesota. He has also been a Humphrey Institute Policy Fellow. His research interests and contributions are in process and plant-wide control, model reduction, systems biology, control of advanced materials processing, and design and control of energy systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Masoud Soroush Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 895-1710 (215) 895-5837 (fax) [log in to unmask] http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~soroushm/