Jack Winnick

Jack Winnick has spent most of his career as a professional engineer and educator. After receiving his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1958) and Ph.D. from University of Oklahoma (1963), he taught at several schools including The Georgia Institute of Technology where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering. His career includes work for NASA, where he aided in the development of life-support equipment on the Shuttle, Skylab and Space Station, and consulting in the oil refining, aerospace, nuclear and power industries. In addition to hundreds of technical articles, he is the author of a widely-used text on thermodynamics and holds several patents in the field of electrochemical engineering and pollution control. Outside of engineering, Winnick has also written several novels.