Dr. Joseph
Louvar
Dr. Joseph
Louvar received his BS from the University of Missouri-Rolla
in 1957, his MS degree from Carnegie Mellon in 1961, and his
PhD from Wayne State University in 1983; all in Chemical Engineering.
Following the award of his MS degree, Dr. Louvar joined Corn
Products as a Process Engineer. In 1963 he and his wife Diane
managed St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Bethany, Oklahoma
until he joined Wyandotte Chemicals as a Development Engineer
in 1965. IN 1969 Wyandotte Chemicals became BASF Wyandotte.
Dr. Louvar held several important positions with BASF including
Systems Engineering, Process Design, and R&D Management,
and director of a research department with scale-up and small-scale
production activities. Dr. Louvar has ten patents, and he
is the author and co-author of thirty-five publications, including
two books: Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications,
co-authored with Dr. Daniel Crowl, and Health and Environmental
Risk Analysis: Fundamentals with Applications, co-authored
with Diane Louvar. Dr. Louvar is currently a Research Professor
at Wayne State University, teaching courses in safety, risk
analysis, process design and the statistical design of experiments.
He is the past Chair of AIChE’s Undergraduate Education
Committee, the past Chair of AIChE’s Safety and Health
Division, and a fellow of the AIChE. Dr. Louvar has been a
member of the Michigan Tech Chemical Engineering Industrial
Advisory Board since 1990. |
