Former CCEW Inventors
Spring of 2007 Inventors
Miguel J. Bagajewicz
Miguel J. Bagajewicz is Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor in OU's School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering and director of the Center for Engineering Optimization. He conducts research in the design, operation, simulation and optimization of process plants and product design. He also specializes in financial risk, environmentally benign processes, and micro-economics as applied to product design. Bagajewicz earned his bachelor's degree from Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina and his master's and doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology.
John Fagan
John Fagan received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas. He serves as Presidential Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and is an active teacher and researcher in the area of alternate energy transportation systems and the use of GPS as an aircraft landing and navigation tool.
Fagan works with the Federal Aviation Administration and the OU Department of Aviation to help determine the use of GPS, Wide Area Augmented System GPS (WAAS) and Local Area Augmented Systems GPS (LAAS) for precision and non-precision approach procedures in the terminal arrival area. The OU research team has been instrumental in the development of the Gamma WAAS navigator and currently is working on the development of a LAAS navigator. Fagan has worked as the principal investigator on a flight test program for category A and B aircraft using the WAAS and the LAAS navigator system for precision approaches as well as a test program for the C-129 GPS navigators.
Daniel Resasco
Daniel Resasco is Douglas and Hilda Bourne Chair of Chemical Engineering and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma and chief scientist of SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.. He directs the carbon nanotube research team that invented the CoMoCAT™ catalytic process.
Resasco holds numerous industrial patents and has been principal investigator on numerous federal and state research grants. A former senior scientist for Sun Oil Co., he is a frequent industrial consultant for Fortune 500 energy and chemical companies and a sought-after speaker at industrial and academic conferences.
In 2004, Resasco received the Oklahoma Chemist Award from the American Chemical Society and the Yale Science and Engineering Award. He serves as editor of the Journal of Catalysis and formerly served on the editorial board of Applied Catalysis.
He holds a doctoral degree from Yale University.
