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Arvind Varma (13 October 1947 – 14 July 2019) was the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research interests are in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, and new energy sources.




Education and work


Varma served as the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University from January 2004 until June 2016 - he was named Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head in 2012. Prior to joining Purdue, he was the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of the Center for Molecularly Engineered Materials at the University of Notre Dame. A native of India, he received all his degrees in Chemical Engineering: B.S. from UICET, Panjab University (1966), M.S. from the University of New Brunswick (1968) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota (1972). He remained at Minnesota for one year as an assistant professor, and was a senior research engineer with Union Carbide Corporation for two years before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1975. He achieved the rank of full professor in 1980, received the Schmitt Chair position in 1988, and was named founding director of the Center for Molecularly Engineered Materials in the year 2000.
Varma's research interests were in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, and new energy sources. He published more than 275 archival journal research papers in these areas, and co-authored three books (Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, Oxford University Press, 1997; Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems, Cambridge University Press, 1999; Catalyst Design: Optimal Distribution of Catalyst in Pellets, Reactors and Membranes, Cambridge University Press, 2001) and co-edited two books. As a mentor, Varma has directed 41 completed Ph.D. dissertations, and the research of 26 post-doctoral research associates. He organized and chaired numerous technical sessions at professional society meetings, and served as Chair of ISCRE-18 held in June 2004. He also served on many national-level committees, including service as founding director of the AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (1996–98) and member of the AIChE Awards Committee (1994–99). He was a member of AIChE's international committee, chair of the awards committee, I&EC Division-ACS, and also chair of the Engineering Research Council Awards Committee, ASEE. He was the founding editor of the Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering, a series of textbooks and monographs published by the Cambridge University Press.
Varma served as department chair at Notre Dame during 1982–1988. He held Visiting Professorships at a number of institutions, including Caltech (Chevron Visiting professor), Princeton, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota (Piercy Distinguished Visiting professor), Univ of Cagliari, Italy (Visiting Chair Professor), IIT-Kanpur and Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai (Kane Visiting professor; Golden Jubilee Fellow; Tilak Visiting Fellow).




Fellowships, honors and recognitions


Indo-American Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar Award, 1988–89
College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1991
Special Presidential Award, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1992
R.H. Wilhelm Award, AIChE, 1993
Series Editor, Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering, 1996–present
Burns Graduate School Award, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1997
Ernest W. Thiele Award, AIChE (Chicago section), 1998
Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award, ASEE, 2000
Research Achievement Award (Inaugural), Univ. of Notre Dame, 2001
Honorary Fellow (Inaugural batch), Indian Institute of Chem. Engineers, 2001
Technologies of the Year (one of five), Industry Week, 2005
Honoree, 60th Birthday sessions - I & II, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2007
Distinguished ChE Alumnus (Inaugural batch of 3), Panjab University, 2008
Distinguished University Alumnus, Panjab University, 2008
Fellow, AIChE, 2008
Honoree, Festschrift issue, [Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research|I&EC Research] (Volume 47, No. 23), 2008
Elected Foreign Member, Academy of Engineering, Mexico, 2010
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
Fellow, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, 2011
Leadership Award, college of engineering, Purdue University, 2011
Warren K. Lewis Award, AIChE, 2013




Illness and death


Varma was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November 2015. He died on 14 July 2019. He was 71 years old.




Books


Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, A. Varma and M. Morbidelli, 690 + xvi pages, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems, A. Varma, M. Morbidelli and H. Wu, 342 + xvi pages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1999; paperback 2005.
Catalyst Design: Optimal Distribution of Catalyst in Pellets, Reactors and Membranes, M. Morbidelli, A. Gavriilidis and A. Varma, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2001; paperback 2005.
The Mathematical Understanding of Chemical Engineering Systems: Selected Papers of N. R. Amundson, R. Aris and A. Varma (Editors), Pergamon Press, 829 pages, 1980.
Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, J. J. Carberry and A. Varma (Editors), Marcel Dekker, 1069 pages, 1987.




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External links


Arvind Varma - Purdue University
Arvind Varma - Educator, Researcher and Leader (I&EC Res., 2008)
Arvind Varma - ChE Educator (CEE, 1998)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Duryodana
• Markandeyapurana
• Madhuri Dixit
• Sonal Mansingh
• Naagin (seri televisi 2015)
• Vivek Oberoi
• My Brother… Nikhil
• India International
• India International Challenge
• Kasautii Zindagii Kay
• Arvind Varma
• Arvind Swamy
• Centrally Sponsored Scheme
• Footfairy
• IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack
• Jitendra Singh Rana
• Road (2002 film)
• Suneet Varma
• Shabareesh Varma
• Deaths in July 2019