Dr. Kal Renganathan Sharma, PE, received his BTech in chemicalengineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India,in 1985 and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering fromWest Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, in 1987 and 1990,respectively. He is the author of 13 books, 548 conference papers, 46 journal articles, 7 book chapters, 3 review articles, and 113 other presentations. He is a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society andserves as an adjunct professor at Houston Community College-Central, Lone Star College-North Harris, Prairie View A & MUniversity, Prairie View, TX and Texas Southern University, Houston,TX. He has instructed thousands of students in India and the UnitedStates. His works have been cited more than 240 times in refereedjournals, and he has introduced four dimensionless groups and onestatistical distribution into the literature and has served as a co-chairat nine conferences.

Dr. Kal Renganathan Sharma, PE, received his BTech in chemicalengineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India,in 1985 and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering fromWest Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, in 1987 and 1990,respectively. He is the author of 13 books, 548 conference papers, 46 journal articles, 7 book chapters, 3 review articles, and 113 other presentations. He is a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society andserves as an adjunct professor at Houston Community College-Central, Lone Star College-North Harris, Prairie View A & MUniversity, Prairie View, TX and Texas Southern University, Houston,TX. He has instructed thousands of students in India and the UnitedStates. His works have been cited more than 240 times in refereedjournals, and he has introduced four dimensionless groups and onestatistical distribution into the literature and has served as a co-chairat nine conferences.

Dr. Kal Renganathan Sharma, PE, received his BTech in chemicalengineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India,in 1985 and MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering fromWest Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, in 1987 and 1990,respectively. He is the author of 13 books, 548 conference papers, 46 journal articles, 7 book chapters, 3 review articles, and 113 other presentations. He is a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society andserves as an adjunct professor at Houston Community College-Central, Lone Star College-North Harris, Prairie View A & MUniversity, Prairie View, TX and Texas Southern University, Houston,TX. He has instructed thousands of students in India and the UnitedStates. His works have been cited more than 240 times in refereedjournals, and he has introduced four dimensionless groups and onestatistical distribution into the literature and has served as a co-chairat nine conferences.