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ChBE, Glasscock offer short course taught by Abbas Firoozabadi

'Hydrocarbon and Renewable Energy Production from the Subsurface: Thermodynamics and Rheology' scheduled for July 25-29.

Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) and the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University will offer a week-long course in “Hydrocarbon and Renewable Energy Production from the Subsurface: Thermodynamics and Rheology.”

Abbas Firoozabadi
Firoozabadi

“The chance to bring this training opportunity to the energy sector takes Rice to the leading edge of the industry,” said David Vassar, assistant dean for professional and corporate programs in the Glasscock School.

Scheduled for July 25-29, the short course will be taught by Abbas Firoozabadi, a distinguished research professor of ChBE at Rice and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Firoozabadi, a native of Iran, earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1972 and 1975, respectively. In 1976 he served as a postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan.

He has taught graduate-level courses on equilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics at the University of Texas at Austin, Imperial College of London, Yale, Tokyo University, Rice and Peking University. He has established a research consortium at the Reservoir Engineering Research Institute (RERI) in Palo Alto, Ca with the funding from major energy companies and the U.S. Department of Energy.