IIT Professor David Venerus Named Hyosung S.R. Cho Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is pleased to announce that Professor David Venerus has been named the Hyosung S.R. Cho Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering. The endowed chair, established by S.R. Cho, an IIT chemical engineering alumnus (’65) and the Hyosung Corporation, recognizes Venerus’ outstanding contributions to chemical engineering and his dedication to both research and academic excellence.
Venerus has been a member of IIT’s faculty since 1989 and is currently a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Since joining IIT, he has been the director of the Center of Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering (1999-2003, 2007-present), and associate chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (2003-2007). Venerus also served as a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, in both 1997 and 2002.
Professor Venerus conducts research in the areas of complex fluids and polymer science and engineering. A major focus of his research is in the field of rheology, or the study of flow behavior of condensed matter. He has published more than 60 papers in journals that include Physical Review Letters and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and holds a U.S. Patent entitled “Apparatus for Generating Generally Uniform Compression in Viscous Liquids.”
Venerus teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in a wide range of topics including fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and polymer science. He received IIT’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Teaching Award in 1991, 1993, 1995 and 2008 and was honored with IIT’s College of Engineering Teaching Award in 1993 and 1995. Venerus earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Rhode Island in 1984 and both an M.S. degree (’86) and Ph.D. degree (’89) in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
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