Ramkrishna receives 2026 AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education - Davidson School of Chemical Engineering - Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Doraiswami Ramkrishna, the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has received the 2026 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Sponsored by ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co., the award recognizes distinguished and continuing contributions to chemical engineering education. Ramkrishna will be honored during the Honors Ceremony at the AIChE Annual Meeting in November.

Ramkrishna’s contributions to chemical engineering education include authoring three books and advising more than 45 doctoral students. His books include “Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering,” written with Neal Amundson. His teaching, mentoring and scholarship have connected mathematical methods with chemical and biochemical reaction engineering. His work encompasses population balance modeling, cybernetic modeling of biological systems, linear operator methods and personalized approaches to cancer treatment.

Ramkrishna joined the Purdue faculty in 1976 and was named the H.C. Peffer Distinguished Professor in 1994. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, was named an AIChE fellow in 2007 and received AIChE’s William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature in 2021.