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Since 2008, Expert has served as the Dean of Engineering at a private university in MN. From 1996-2008, Expert was Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has been honored nationally for his teaching and research as a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. Prior to his career in academia, he worked for Shell Oil Company as a Research Engineer. He has also worked as a Foreign Scholar for the Mexican government CONACYT. He is the author of over forty papers and book chapters. His research in polymer materials and plastics processing has been cited over 900 times in the literature. He is the inventor on 3 U.S. Patents and has been the Principal Investigator on over $8 million in federal, state and corporate research grants. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and a BS from Iowa State University both in Chemical Engineering.

Technical Interests: Polymer materials. Con-formal plasma surface modification. Transport & barrier properties of polymers. Plastics processing. Engineering Education. Renewable Energy & Sustainability.