Fellows profiles

The following AIChE members have been elected to the status of Fellow.

John T. Sears

John Sears, the Montana State University chair of engineering and computer science education, has been named a Fellow of AIChE.

Sears was the founding associate director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biofilm Engineering. Some of the biofilm-related problems that the center is concerned with include pipe corrosion, reducing heat transfer in industrial systems, and contamination of drinking water caused by biofilms that harbor toxic bacteria. Sears has also been active in increasing minority participation in engineering through Montana State's …