Reible Receives Prestigious Nomination to National Academy of Engineering
April 26, 2005
Dr. Danny Reible, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his development of widely used methods of managing contaminated sediments. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is the highest professional distinction bestowed to an engineer in the United States.
Dr. Reible retired from LSU in August 2004 after 24 years of exemplary service to the University and the community. He joined the chemical engineering faculty in 1982 upon receiving his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology; he was promoted to professor in 1992. He was the Shell Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia from 1993-95. Upon his return to LSU, he became director of the Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) and in 1998 he was named the Chevron Professor in Chemical Engineering. In August of 2004 he became the Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin.
In 1986 the American Society of Engineering Education awarded Dr. Reible the New Engineering Educator Excellence Award and, in 1987, an Environmental Science and Engineering Fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1991 he was a Senior Visitor to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. He was an invited guest of the Institute of Experimental Meteorology in Obninsk, Russia in 1988 and again in 1995. He is the recipient of the Lawrence K. Cecil Environmental Division Award of the Institute of Chemical Engineers for 2001 and the Charles E. Coates Award of the Local Sections of the American Chemical Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers for 2002. He has served as an external reviewer of Environmental Engineering programs in Australia and Singapore. He is the author of the textbooks, Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering and Diffusion Models of Environmental Transport, and more than 100 technical papers and reports.
