Adjunct Professor - Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Stephen E. Zitney has nearly 30 years of R&D experience in process systems engineering for chemical and energy applications and the environment. Since 2004, he has directed process systems engineering research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). In 2011, Dr. Zitney launched the AVESTAR Center for Advanced Virtual Energy Simulation Training And Research at West Virginia University (WVU), where he also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering.
Before joining DOE/NETL, Dr. Zitney held senior consulting and R&D management positions at Fluent, a leading provider of computational fluid dynamics software, Aspen Technology, a major supplier of process simulation software, and Cray Research, a leading provider of supercomputing tools to the process and energy industries. He received M.S./Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Zitney has authored and co-authored over 100 publications, 150 conference presentations, and 50 invited presentations in process systems engineering. He currently serves as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a Trustee of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation. Dr. Zitney is the recipient of numerous awards including 6 prestigious R&D100 Awards and 7 Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer.
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986
B.S. Chemical Engineering/Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1983