Rensselaer CATS, a NYSTAR-supported Center for Advanced Technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. B. Wayne Bequette as its Associate Director of Process Technologies.  In this new role, Wayne will coordinate process modeling, optimization and control related research in the CATS, with applications to chemical, pharmaceutical, oil, gas and other systems.  Wayne will work with CATS faculty and staff to develop cohesive messages to prospective sponsors, form interdisciplinary teams to explore new funding opportunities, and strengthen and cultivate relationship with current and future industrial partners.

Dr. Wayne Bequette is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He received his B.S.Ch.E. from University of Arkansas in Fayettesville, and M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin. He worked for three years as a process engineer for American Petrofina between his undergraduate and graduate studies. From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Texas and from 1987 to 1988 he was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California at Davis. He joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1988 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and Professor in 2000. Dr. Bequette was on sabbatical leave during the 1995-6 academic year, spending the fall semester at Merck Research Laboratories and the spring at Northwestern University.