and the Board of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition. Edgar was a Director of AIChE from 1989-92, and he was elected Vice President of AIChE for 1996 and President for 1997. He was Chair of the AIChE Foundation from 2002-2008. He also served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Council for Chemical Research (1991-93). He served as a representative of AIChE on the Engineering Accreditation Commission from 2005-2010. He was founding general editor of the technical journal, In Situ, and has participated on six editorial boards and five university advisory committees. Edgar has been a consultant to several companies, including AMD, Texas Instruments, Emerson Process Management, Applied Materials, and Chemstations. Recognition Edgar received the Outstanding AIChE Student Chapter Counselor Award in 1974, AIChE’s Colburn Award for research contributions in 1980 and Computing in Chemical Engineering Award in 1995, the AIChE Lewis Award in 2005, the F. J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award in 2010, and the Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering Award in 2013; the ASEE George Westinghouse Young Educator Award in 1988 and Union Carbide Chemical Engineering Division Lectureship in 1996; the 1992 John R. Ragazzini Education Award from the American Automatic Control Council; the 1993 Donald P. Eckman Education Award from ISA and the Pruitt Award from the Council for Chemical Research in 2009. He received the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award from the University of Texas in 1989, the Distinguished Engineering Service Award from the University of Kansas in 1990, and the Control Engineering Prize from IFAC in 2005. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Engineering and is a Fellow of AIChE, IFAC, and ASEE. In 2007 he was selected by Control Magazine for the Process Automation Hall of Fame. References 1945 births Living people American chemical engineers University of Texas at Austin faculty University of Kansas alumni Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients Fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control