Doraiswami Ramkrishna, an Indian American professor at Purdue University, has received the 2026 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Sponsored by ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co., the award recognizes distinguished and continuing contributions to chemical engineering education, according to a university release. Ramkrishna will be honored during the Honors Ceremony at the AIChE Annual Meeting later this month.
A Bombay University graduate, Ramkrishna is the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. His contributions to chemical engineering education include authoring three books and advising more than 45 doctoral students.
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His books include “Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering,” written with Neal Amundson. His teaching, mentoring and scholarship have connected mathematical methods with chemical and biochemical reaction engineering.
His work encompasses population balance modeling, cybernetic modeling of biological systems, linear operator methods and personalized approaches to cancer treatment, the university noted congratulating him on the award.
Ramkrishna joined the Purdue faculty in 1976 and was named the H.C. Peffer Distinguished Professor in 1994. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, was named an AIChE fellow in 2007 and received AIChE’s William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature in 2021.
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He is a Fellow of professional societies, AIMBE (1996), and of AIChE (2008). From Germany, he won the Senior Humboldt Award (2001) to visit the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg.
Bombay University honored him with the UDCT Diamond Award (1994), the Platinum Award (2009), and Ruia College with the Jewel of Ruia Award (2006). In 2005, the University of Minnesota awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Science degree.
He earned his BS from the University of Bombay and his PhD from the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.