Daniel A. Crowl

Daniel Crowl retired from Michigan Technological University in August of 2015 and is the past Herbert H. Dow Professor for Chemical Process Safety and a professor emeritus. From 2015 to 2019, he was a staff consultant for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. Crowl is a Fellow of AIChE, the American Chemical Society Safety and Health Division, and the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety. He is AIChE/CCPS certified in process safety. He is the co-author of the textbook Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, 1st thru 4th editions published by Pearson. He is also the author of the AIChE eLearning course on laboratory safety and was a major contributor to the AIChE Chem-E-Car safety program. Crowl has received numerous awards from AIChE, ACS, and the American Chemistry Council. His research at Michigan Tech significantly improved the experimental characterization of flammable gases. Crowl received his BS in fuel science from the Pennsylvania State University and his MS and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He generously served as a judge for this year’s Graduate Research Symposium.