Charles E. Baukal Jr.

Charles E. Baukal, Jr., Ph.D., Ed.D., P.E. is the Director of the John Zink Institute for the John Zink Co. LLC (Tulsa, OK, USA) where he has been since 1998. He previously worked for 13 years at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, PA, USA) in the areas of oxygen-enhanced combustion and rapid gas quenching in the ferrous and non-ferrous metals, minerals, and waste incineration industries. He worked for Marsden, Inc. (Pennsauken, NJ, USA) for 5 years in the paper, printing, and textile industries and for Selas Corp. (Dresher, PA, USA) in the metals industry, both in the area of industrial combustion equipment. He has over 35 years of experience in the fields of industrial combustion, pollution control, and heat transfer and has authored more than 100 publications in those areas. Dr. Baukal has over 30 years of adjunct teaching experience and is currently an adjunct instructor for Oral Roberts University and the University of Tulsa. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA), an Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) with a dissertation on engineering education, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania. He has served as an expert witness in the field of combustion, has 11 U.S. patents, and is a member of numerous honorary societies, Who's Who compilations, and technical societies. He has over 150 publications/presentations and serves on a number of advisory boards.