Teacher

Prof Efraim Kehat

Short CV

Dr Ephraim Kehat

Department of Chemical Engineering
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Born at Haifa in 1927

Served in the Palmach 1945-1947
Served in the War of Independence 1947-1950
Served in the reserves till 1984.

Academic degrees

B.Sc. Summa cum laude in Chemical Engineering. Technion, 1953
Engineer, Technion, 1954
M.Sc. Technion, 1956
Sc.D. MIT, 1960

Academic appointments at the Technion

October 1995: Professor Emeritus
March 1985: Edwards chair of engineering
October 1969: Professor
September 1967: Assoc. Professor
September 1964: Senior lecturer
February 1962: Lecturer

Senior appointments at the Technion and Israel

1982-3: Vice President for Academic affairs
1973-4, 1986-8: Chairman of the department of Chemical Engineering
1994-7: Member of the National Council for Research and Development

Industrial experience

1960-2: Air Products, Senior research engineer
1974/5,1979/80,1981,1985: Celanese, Senior visiting research associate
1990/91,1993: DuPont, Visiting Scientist
1975-9: Tami, General manager
1977-9: Israel Chemicals, Research manager

Consultant for 2 years or longer

Life Engineering, IDC, Machteshim, Galil, Tami.

Editorial boards

1970-2000: The Chemical Engineering Journal
1977-1987: Computers and Chemical Engineering

Professional Societies

American Institute of chemical Engineering
American Chemical Society
Israel Institution of Chemical Engineering, President 1988-90.

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate courses

  • General Principles of Engineering (I), 1970-73
  • Introduction to Efficient Programming (II), 1984-96
  • Introduction to Chemical Engineering (II), 1955-90
  • Unit Operations Lab. (III), 1961-65.(1967 US)
  • Selected Process Industries (III), 1983-current
  • Reactor Design (IV), 1961-64
  • Analysis of Chemical Processes (IV), 1964-96
  • Simulation of Chemical Eng. Processes (IV), 1968-98
  • Project in Applied Computing (IV), 1989
  • Petrochemicals Separation (IV), 1965-67
  • Petrochemical Processes (IV), 1965-81
  • Senior Research Lab. (IV), 1968-71

Graduate courses

  • Cryogenic Engineering (G), 1962
  • Advanced Reactor Design (G), 1964-70
  • Multistage Separations (G), 1975-86
  • Process Assessment (G) , 1991
  • Project in petroleum engineering (G) , 2012-current