Dr. Richard Davis is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he teaches computational methods, unit operations of fluids, heat, and mass transfer, chemical reactor design, biochemical and green engineering, and separations. His current teaching and research interests include process modeling and simulation applied to energy conversion, pollution control, chemical process safety, and environmental management. He received his chemical engineering degrees from Brigham Young University (B.S.) and the University of California Santa Barbara (Ph.D.). He has over 25 years of experience teaching numerical methods and simulation.