Richard Davis is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has over two decades experience teaching a variety of courses including computational methods, unit operations of momentum, heat and mass transfer, chemical reactor design, engineering economics, bioprocess engineering, green engineering, and separations. He has BS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of California Santa Barbara, respectively. His current teaching and research interests include process modeling and simulation applied to mineral processing, energy conversion, pollution control, chemical process safety, and environmental management.