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