Professor
The Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1972
M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970
B.S., University of Belgrade, 1967
Biography
Professor Dudukovic joined the faculty at Washington University in 1974 as an associate professor. He developed the Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory (CREL) as a unique and effective interface for transfer of academic reaction engineering to industrial practice. CREL activities are focused on two broad areas: development of improved, fundamentally based models for multiphase reaction systems with experimental verification; and extension of reaction engineering methodology to new environmentally benign processes in production of new fuels and materials.
In 1994, Professor Dudukovic won the prestigious AIChE R.H. Wilhelm Award for reaction engineering. His teaching has been recognized by the Washington University Engineering Professor of the Year Award five times, by the Burlington Northern Foundation Award in 1986 and by the Chemical Manufacturers Association with a Catalyst Award in 1998. In 1999, he won the Council for Chemical Research Malcolm E. Pruitt Award for outstanding contributions to the progress of chemistry and chemical engineering by promotion of mutually beneficial interactions among universities, the chemical industry and government. In 2000, Professor Dudukovic was the recipient of the IIT Alumni Professional Achievement Award. And in 2001, he was elected Fellow of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. Washington University honored Professor Dudukovic with a Distinguished Faculty Award in 2004.
Professor Dudukovic has over 350 publications in refereed journals and has always been professionally active. In 2005, the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Journal (I&ECR) produced a two part festschrift to honor his pioneering role in multiphase reaction engineering. Professor Dudukovic wrote AIChE instructional modules, organized over 50 sessions at AIChE annual meetings, participated as program committee member for Catalysis and Reaction Engineering and served as local St. Louis Chapter AIChE Director from 1986 to 1989. Currently, Professor Dudukovic is the president of ISCRE, Inc.
Research
The main drive of Professor Dudukovic's research remains advancing the frontiers of reaction engineering and effective use of reaction engineering methodology, including tracer methods, in multiphase systems in scale-up of bench scale information to new environmentally clean processes for production of fuels, materials and chemicals. Unique features of his research involve use of radioisotopes to monitor and map various multiphase flows and enable validation of advanced models and theories in this complex field.