Dilhan Kalyon
Dr. Dilhan M. Kalyon is the holder of the Institute Professor chair and the Director of the Highly Filled Materials Institute at Stevens Institute of Technology. He obtained his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from McGill University in Canada, in 1977 and 1980, respectively and his BEng degree from METU in Ankara in 1975, following 7 years of boarding school in Talas/Tarsus in Turkey. Upon graduation from McGill he joined Stevens Institute of Technology, where he has served at the International Programs Office (80-84), and at the Department Of Chemical, Biochemical and Materials Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Engineering (84-98) and Institute Professor chair since March 1999.
Professor Kalyon’s expertise is in the rheology, simulation and processing of complex fluids including polymers and energetic, ceramic, magnetic and composite materials processed using molding, extrusion and coating techniques, especially involving suspensions filled with rigid particles at concentrations which approach the maximum packing fraction of the rigid particles. His research is multi-disciplinary in nature and integrates mathematical modeling, experimental studies using industrial-scale processing equipment, microstructural distributions and ultimate properties of processed articles. He has received over 120 contracts and grants from various companies and Government organizations.
Professor Kalyon and his co-workers have developed various comprehensive technologies in the areas of disposal of very toxic chemicals, mitigation of EMF, mixing, on-line rheology and microstructural analysis of suspensions including their degree of mixedness, novel materials including processable magnetic composites with high relative permeability, materials and processes for on-site molding of replacements for cranial bones removed during neurosurgery, recycling and reuse of energetic materials, particle size distribution of crystalline solids using x-ray techniques, novel foodstuffs and methods of manufacturing them, new methods of manufacturing of energetic materials with desired structural distributions and a safe disposal technique for medical waste. They have also developed comprehensive source codes to simulate processing, mixing and microstructure development of polymers and concentrated suspensions. Some of these developments are patented, and some are being pursued by Stevens Institute of Technology as new patents and opportunities for commercialization.
Prof. Kalyon has received the Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Assistant Professor (1987) and the Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Full Professor award (2000), Exemplary Research Award of and an Honorary MEng degree from Stevens Institute of Technology(1994), the Research award of Society of Plastics Engineers(2008), the 2008 Thomas Baron Award of AICHE and various fellowships including those from Dupont, Exxon and Unilever. He is a Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineering and Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He is a member of the NY Academy of Sciences, US Society of Rheology, Polymer Processing Society, British and European Societies of Rheology,American Institute of Physics, and American Society of Engineering Education. He has served or currently serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Energetic Materials, Journal of Materials Manufacturing and Processing and Journal of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Gazi University, Teknoloji, and the Board and university representative of the Engineering Research Council of American Society for Engineering Education.