R. S. Jane Memorial Award/ Prix commemoratif R.-S.-Jane.

Sponsored by / Parraine par CSChE

The R. S. Jane Memorial Award is the premier prize of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and is awarded for exceptional achievement in chemical engineering or industrial chemistry.

Le Prix commemoratif R.-S.-Jane est le prix principal presente par la Societe canadienne de genie chimique pour souligner une contribution exceptionnelle au domaine du genie chimiqae ou de la chimie indastrielle.

Paul Watkinson, FCIC

The University of British Columbia

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Following high school education in northern Ontario, Paul Watkinson graduated in chemical engineering from McMaster University in 1962. He spent the next two years in industrial pulp and paper research, before graduate study at The University of British Columbia (UBC). After completing masters and PhD programs in mass and heat transfer, in 1968 he joined the Noranda Research Centre. He returned to the department of chemical engineering at UBC in 1971, and was promoted to professor in 1979. He served as department head from 1992 to 2001, guiding a merger which resulted in the new department of chemical and biological engineering in 1999.

His research interests have included gasification of coal, bio-mass and coke, pyrolysis of coal and shale for liquids production, and heat transfer, calcination, and combustion of novel bio-fuels in rotary kilns. He is a recognized international authority in heat exchanger fouling, particularly from hydrocarbons. He has co-chaired a number of international conferences, and contributed to many short courses for industry on this topic.

Watkinson has been active in the CSChE, serving as Vancouver CSChE Local Section Chair, as a member of the CSChE Board of Directors, as associate editor of The Canadian ournal of Chemical Engineering, and as program chair for the 52nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in 2002. He was the winner of the ERCO Award in 1979, and the Jules Stachiewicz Medal for heat transfer in 199e.

He became professor emeritus in 2004, and continues to supervise an applied research program which focuses on fouling, bio-fuel gasification, and rotary kilns.