On July 9, 2015, Professor Brian J. Edwards of University of Tennessee-Knoxville has visited Jiangsu University. He visits the Scholl of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and will give lecture to the master course and doctor course students on thermodynamics and kinetics of polymerrs. He will also do researches herein on the crystal growth and drug release kinetics. The total time is ca. one month. Today, he gave a report entitled as “Thermodynamics of Nonisothermal Polymer Flows: Experiment, Theory and Simulation”. Teachers and students from the Scholl of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering attended the report. He mainly talked about the experimental process and thermodynamic simulation theory on HDPE and LDPE. After the report, he answered academic questions mentioned by teachers and students. Besides, the questions about studying abroad and how can they go to study in University of Tennessee-Knoxville have been stated carefully.
Pro. Edwards is a guest professor of our university. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1986, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1991. He joined the Faculty of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as an associate professor in 2001 after several years of research at the Institute for Polymer Physics at ETH-Zurich in Switzerland. He was promoted to the rank of professor in 2009, and currently serves as the associate department head, since 2006. Pro. Edwards’ areas of expertise lie in the theoretical modeling of polymeric fluids and in atomistic simulation of flowing polymers, specifically via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Up to now, he has published about 150 papers and 10 academic books.