H. Scott Fogler*

H. Scott Fogler passed away Saturday, August 21, 2021, at the age of 81. Scott earned a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MS and PhD from the University of Colorado. Scott spent his entire 56-year academic career with the chemical engineering faculty at the University of Michigan. Pivotal to his remarkable national and international impact, Scott authored or co-authored 12 textbooks, including “Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering” and “Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering”. Throughout his long career, Scott received many awards, honors, and accolades from national professional societies including an honorary degree, doctor honoris causa, from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, and the F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), where he served as president in 2009. Notably, he created the long-running and much lauded Chem-E-Car Competition, which has drawn teams from more than 100 universities. Forty-five PhD students graduated from his research group, which published more than 240 articles under his leadership. He loved teaching undergraduate and graduate “ChemE” courses as well as a course he created on strategies for creative problem-solving. Scott met his wife, Janet, on a blind date in 1959 at the University of Illinois, and they were together from that moment on, married 59 years.