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Academic
Faculty, Professional Training Roles
Bob's undergraduate
degree is in Chemical and Materials
Engineering at University of
Auckland, a member of the
founding class.
He worked three summers as an intern: for N.Z. Roads, North Broken Hill, and
for Shell Oil in Geelong. After graduating with Honours, Bob was
industrially sponsored for a Ph.D. "Expert Systems in Steelmaking"
part-time, while teaching at Auckland U.
Bob migrated to US in 1972 but invited
urgently back to NZ in 1983 to
be the Senior Lecturer "Process Design".
"Process Analysis and
Economics" (his predecessor was seconded to Shell's
NZ Refining Company
to deal with an urgent upgrade project precipitated by the
Iran - Iraq war)
Bob served on Auckland U's
Engineering School curriculum redesign,
designed and built
a six-station "Computer-Based Training" lab for process design, served on campus-wide technology committee,
taught Materials Engineering to the skipper who took the
America's Cup from US!
In 1985
Mobil asked the University Chancellor to release him to
mentor new engineers on startup of N.Z. SynFuel. In 1990 Bob transferred to Mobil R&D Corp'n where his role included mentoring
Drexel interns.
He trained staff globally on Mobil "Crude Oil Assays"
software in 1992, "GENIE"
best practices tools for EH&S 1996-1997,
Korea Gas on American design codes in 1997.
In
2002 American University appointed him as "Researcher-in-Residence",
principally to setup GIS bench strength at the Faculty and the graduate
program level through AU's Center for
Teaching Excellence. He wrote plans for PSM
(Professional Sciences Masters) program in 2003 which won Sloan
funding, hosted Professional MS
briefings, and featured on their brochure
cover.
In 2003 and 2004 he was summer technology advisor to
the
School of Public Service
in DC for 40 top high school students from across the US wanting to
pursue a career in public service.
Spring 2006 he was adjunct at Western Washington Un, taught
Introduction to Planning plus a GIS course including Birch Bay
town center study, photo-map history of
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