Areas of Specialization

• Chemical Process Design & Scale-up
• Chemical Process Simulation
• Chemical Process Control
• Chemical Reaction Engineering Thermodynamics
• Combinatorial Techniques

Education

B.S., Texas Tech University, Mathematics summa cum laude, June 1983
B.S., Texas Tech University, Chemical Engineering summa cum laude, December 1982
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989

Biographical Sketch

Responsible for undergraduate instruction and laboratory safety. Instructor for eight of the fifteen core curriculum courses over the past two years. Member of the Undergraduate Program committee. Current chairman of the department’s ABET accreditation committee. Coordinated ABET activities within the department since 2004. Chairman of the department’s career placement committee. Counsel students on ways to improve their job search, interviewing, and resume-writing skills using previous experience hiring chemical engineers.

Teaching

• Unit Operations Lab 
• Practice School
• Chemical Process Design
• Process Control

Publications & Presentations

1. J.B. Rawlings, J.C. Prindle, and W.H. Ray, International Workshop on Polymer Reaction Engineering, Berlin (1986).
2. J.C. Prindle and W.H. Ray, 1987 Annual AICHE Meeting, New York.
3. M. Barandiaran, J.C. Prindle, and W.H. Ray, 1989 AICHE Meeting, Washington D.C.
4. J.C. Prindle, Computer Modeling of the Silicon Melt Process in a Czochralski Puller, 1991 Fall Meeting of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Okayama.
5. Computer Modeling of the Silicon Melt Process in a Czochralski Puller, November 1991, Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
6. Process Simulation: Art or Science?, January 1997, Baton Rouge Section of AICHE, Baton Rouge, LA.
7. J.C. Prindle, Nalepa, Christopher J., Kumar, Govindarajulu, Flame Retardant Styrenic Polymers, Eur. Pat. Appl. EP 806,451 (1997).
8. Applying the RC1/MP10 to Study Pressure Reactions Involving Pyrophoric Materials, October 1998, Mettler RC1 User Forum, Marco Island, FL.
9. J.C. Prindle, Nalepa, Christopher J., Kumar, Govindarajulu, Flame Retardant Styrenic Polymers, U.S. Pat. 5,811,470 (1998).
10. Industrial Applications of Chemical Engineering Fundamentals, January 2000, Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.
11. K.F. Lin, J.E. Boone, M.D. Matthews, J.C. Prindle, and S.D. McGee, Method and Catalysts for Producing Alkyl Mercaptans and/or Dialkyl Sulfides from Alkanols and Hydrogen Sulfide, U.S. Pat. 6,198,003 (2001).
12. J.C. Prindle, M.W. Easson, J.D. Palmer, J.G. Jones, M. Mortensen, and J.E. Boone, Separation of 2,4-Toluenediamine from an Isomeric Mixture of Toluenediamines, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2001070666 (2001).
13. W.R. Brown, J.C. Prindle, and G.H. Lambeth, Aromatic Amine Curatives and Their Use in Production of Polyurethane/Polyurea Elastomers, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2001070841 (2001).
14. B. Kneale, J.E. Boone, S.P. Diefenbach, C.P. Loechelt, and J.C. Prindle, Polymerization Process Using Self-Supported Metallocene Catalysts, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2001098381 (2001).
15. B. Kneale, J.E. Boone, S.P. Diefenbach, C.P. Loechelt, and J.C. Prindle, Process of Producing Self-Supported Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2001098374 (2001).
16. J.C. Prindle, M.W. Easson, J.D. Palmer, J.G. Jones, M. Mortensen, and J.E. Boone, Separation of 2,4-Toluenediamine from an Isomeric Mixture of Toluenediamines, U.S. Pat. 6,469,212 (2002).
17. W.R. Brown, J.C. Prindle, and G.H. Lambeth, Aromatic Amine Curatives and Their Use in Production of Polyurethane/Polyurea Elastomers, U.S. Pat. 6,509,434 (2003).
18. B. Kneale, J.E. Boone, S.P. Diefenbach, C.P. Loechelt, and J.C. Prindle, Producing Self-Supported Pre-polymerized Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization, U.S. Pat. 6,677,265 (2004).
19. J.C. Prindle and D.J. Manuel, Cracking of Dicyclopentadiene, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2006011873 (2006).
20. J.C. Prindle and J.E. Boone, Process to Make Metal Complexes with Volatile Liquid Metal Compounds, PCT Int. Appl. WO 2005108372 (2005).
21. B. Harrod, T. Hall, C. Knight, J.C. Prindle and D.M. Armstrong, Concurrent Sulfur Dioxide Oxidation Process and its Use in Manufacture of Tetrabromophthalic Anhydride, PCT Int. Appl WO 2005113430 (2005).
22. Y. Song, E. Doomes, J. Prindle, R. Tittsworth, J. Hormes, and C. Kumar, Investigations into Sulfobetaine-Stabilized Cu Nanoparticle Formation: Toward Development of a Micro fluidic Synthesis, J. Phys. Chem. B (2005), 109(19), pp. 9330-8