Co-Principal Investigator
ChBE
Alan (Al) Weimer, H.T. Sears Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering, joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 1996 after a 16 year career with the Dow Chemical Company. He was named Dow Research Inventor of the Year in 1993 and received Dow’s “Excellence in Science Award” in 1995 for commercializing high temperature processing to produce advanced non-oxide materials. The Rapid Carbothermal Reduction (“RCR”)process, sold to Sandvik Coromant, produces...