History of the Ralph Peck Memorial Lecture Series
The Ralph Peck Lecture Series began in the late 1970s and is held in honor of Ralph Peck, a dynamic teacher and researcher, who was chairman of the chemical engineering department from 1953 to 1967.
Lecturers are selected via nominations by the department faculty and voted on by a department committee. Previous lecturers have come from all over the country and from academia, government organizations and corporations.
2010 Peck Lecture and Distinguished Alumni Awards
PREVIOUS PECK LECTURERS
Richard C. Alkire - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John L. Anderson - Illinois Institute of Technology
Robert F. Anderson - UOP LLC
Bernard S. Baker - Energy Research Corporation
Richard G. Carlson - Dow Chemical Company
Reg Davies - DuPont Central R & D
Liang-Shih Fan - The Ohio State University
Klavs F. Jensen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry T. Kohlbrand - The Dow Chemical Company
Robert Langer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry R. Linden - Gas Research Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology
Regina M. Murphy - University of Wisconsin - Madison
James Y. Oldshue - Lightnin Corporation
Charles O’Melia - The Johns Hopkins University
W. Harmon Ray - University of Wisconsin
M.C. Roco - National Science Foundation
John P. Sachs - Great Lakes Carbon Corporation
Gregory Stephanopoulos - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marvin Warshay - NASA Lewis Research Center
Thomas A. Weil - Amoco Chemical Company
Robert M. Wellek - National Science Foundation
Ahmed Zewail - California Institute of Technology
