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Dr. Dana E. Knox, Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology passed away on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Dr. Knox was born in upstate New York, and received BS (1977), MS (1978) and PhD (1982) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic University in Troy, New York. He began his career on the faculty at NJIT in 1983, and he joined the Provost’s Office at NJIT in 2004. This year he would have celebrated his 25-year anniversary at NJIT.
Dr. Knox was an expert in thermodynamics of fluids and fluid |
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mixtures. He was widely published in the technical literature, extremely active in research, and in 2002, he received the Franzosini Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in appreciation of his continuous contributions to the Solubility Data Project. At the time of his death, Dr. Knox was serving as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data for IUPAC. Dr. Knox was extremely active in the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineering), often organizing and chairing sessions at the national meetings. He was also a frequent contributor to annual meetings of ASEE.
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Dr. Knox was an avid sports enthusiast. At one time he was the coach of the NJIT Ice Hockey club and also enjoyed soccer, golf, bowling and racquet ball.
He was beloved as a colleague across the NJIT campus, as a dedicated advisor for many students who received their degrees from NJIT, and he was currently serving as Co-Advisor for the NJIT student chapter of AIChE. He received awards for excellence in teaching and for excellence in advising from the Newark College of Engineering. In 1994 he received the university-wide Robert W. |
Van Houten Award bestowed by the NJIT alumni to recognize teaching excellence. In 2002, he was appointed to the rank of Master Teacher at NJIT.
He is survived by his wife, Petra Knox of Edison, NJ and his sister, Laura Matthews, of Plattsburgh, NY.
In lieu of flowers or other expressions of condolences, and as a tribute to Dr. Knox’s commitment to education and to the NJIT community, donations to the Dr. Dana E. Knox Memorial Scholarship Fund at NJIT are suggested. For more information, contact Jacquelynn Rhodes, associate vice president of development, rhodes@njit.edu (973-596-3407). |
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