Jack B. Howard Director, EPA Center on Airborne Organics Associate Director, MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering

Personal Born October 16, 1937 in Tompkinsville, Kentucky

Education

• B.S. University of Kentucky, 1960
• M.S. University of Kentucky, 1961
• Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1965

Employment

• 1965-67 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering MIT
• 1967-95 Assistant Professor (1967-72), Associate Professor (1972-75), Professor (1975-95), Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
• 1979-81 Executive Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering MIT
• 1995- Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
• 1996- Director, Center for Airborne Organics, MIT

Visiting Positions

• 1966 and 1967 (summers)

Senior Scientist, United Technology Center, United Aircraft Corporation, Sunnyvale, California

• 1968 (summer)

Research Scientist, Esso Research and Engineering Co., Baytown, Texas

• 1983 (summer)

Visting Scientist, CNRS Laboratory for Research on Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Mulhouse, France

Research Focuses

High temperature chemistry, especially mechanisms and kinetics of reactions in combustion, fuel processing, materials synthesis, and waste destruction, including: formation and oxidation polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes and soot in flames; pyrolysis, gasification and combustion of coal, biomass and solid wastes; flame and plasma production of fullerenes, carbon nanostructures, metals and metal carbides.

Engineering and Scientific Societies

Membership -

• Combustion Institute
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Chemical Society
• Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi
• American Association for the Advancement of Science

Offices -

• Co-chairman, 1975-1980, Energy Research Committee, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Chairman, 1978, Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Science
• Program Chairman, 1982, Nineteenth International Symposium on Combustion
• Chairman, 1984, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society
• Director, 1987-1989, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society
• Director, 1994-present, Combustion Institute

National and International Committees and Panels

• National Research Council, Panel on Coal Gasification, 1975-1977
• U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Consulting Group on Energy Technology, 975-1980
• National Research Council, Panel on Energy Programs of the National Bureau of Standards, 1978-1980
• Combustion Institute, Advisory Committee for International Symposia on Combustion, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994
• Gas Research Institute, Committee on Basic Coal Science Program, 1978-1980
• NATO, Advisory Committee for Workshop on Soot in Combustion Systems and Its Toxic Properties, 1981
• Department of Energy/Solar Energy Research Institute, Committee on Biomass Research, 1981-1983
• International Energy Agency, Advisory Committee on International Conference on Coal Science, 1983
• NATO, Advisory Committee for Workshop on Coal Combustion, 1986
• NASA, Microgravity Combustion Science Panel, 1992-present

Editorial Boards

• Fuel, 1982-1994
• Combustion and Flame, 1985-1990 (Deputy Editor, 1991-1996), 1999-present
• Energy and Fuels, 1986-1993

Honors and Awards

• Richard H. Wilhelm Lectureship, Princeton University, 1977
• Henry H. Storch Award, American Chemical Society, 1983
• Silver Medal, Combustion Institute, 1984
• Oblad Distinguished Lecturer, University of Utah, 1989
• Bernard Lewis Gold Medal, Combustion Institute, 1992
• Charles L. Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal, Pennsylvania State University, 1994
• Engineering Hall of Distinction, University of Kentucky, 1997
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Universite de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France, 1997

Publications (Link to Current Publications)

Author or co-author of over 180 papers 1 book, and 7 patents