Emeritus
Mobay Professor, Chemical
Engineering and Engineering
and Public Policy
Transport
phenomena, heat and mass transfer, and diffusion-reaction
kinetics.
B.S. (Chemical
Engineering) 1948, Drexel Institute of Technology.
M.S. (Chemical Engineering) 1950 and Ph.D. (Chemical
Engineering) 1952, Northwestern University.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1953 -.
Professor
Toor's teaching and research have been primarily in
mainstream chemical engineering. He was Head of the
Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon,
and subsequently Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology.
During
the early days of the environmental movement, Professor
Toor, Bob Dunlap (later the first Head of EPP), Mike
Massey (the first joint Ph.D. from EPP), and Dave
Ragone ran a project course to examine air-borne emissions
in Pittsburgh - the precursor of the EPP project course.
After
he became Dean of CIT, Professor Toor asked Bob Dunlap
to develop a program to bring policy issues into engineering
education and research. Bob Dunlap decided that collaboration
with social scientists was needed, and, jointly with
Gordon Lewis of the School of Urban and Public Affairs,
wrote a proposal to start a program which was funded
by the Sloan Foundation and which eventually became
EPP.
Professor
Toor's research has included studies concerned with
extracting oil from oil shale and removing SO2 from
stack gases, as well as fundamental studies in heat
and mass transfer. He chaired the Committee on Evaluation
of Sulfur Oxides Control Technology of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Professor
Toor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
American Chemical Society, and American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and a Fellow of the
AIChE and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
Representative
Publications
H. L.
Toor, "Turbulent Reactive Mixing of Reversible Reactions,"
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal,
vol. 43, no. 2, 1997, pp. 303-310.
H. L.
Toor, "Intensity of Segregation Revisited," American
Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, vol.
43, no. 1, 1997, pp. 263-264.
M. L.
Hanks and H. L. Toor, "Relative Importance of Macro-
and Micromixing in Turbulent, Reacting Jets," I&EC
Research, vol. 34, 1995, pp. 3252-3256.
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