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Dr. JOHN VLACHOPOULOS started teaching at McMaster University after receiving his doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis Mo., USA in 1968. He served as department chairman (1985-1988) and he is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Centre for Advanced Polymer Processing and Design (CAPPA-D). He was on sabbatical research leave at I.K.T. Stuttgart, Germany (1975) and CEMEF, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France (1981-1982, 1988-1989). He is the author of more than 200 publications on polymer processing, rheology and computer aided methods. Over the years he has served as consultant to several hundred corporations. With his co-workers, he has developed the commercially available POLYCAD®, SPIRALCAD, CALENDERCAD, FLATCAD, PROFILECAD, EXTRUCAD (now NEXTRUCAD), LAYERCAD, T-FORMCAD, B-FILMCAD, RHEO-MWD, and XTRU-XPERT software packages and created POLYDYNAMICS, INC.. He has lectured in the USA, Canada, South America, Japan, Australia, and throughout Europe. He received the 2001 Education Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) during the ANTEC in Dallas, Texas and the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Extrusion Division of SPE in Chicago. He is the President of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS) for the term 2005 - 2007, and a member of several professional associations. John Vlachopoulos is also co-editor of the "SPE Guide on Extrusion Technology and Troubleshooting" (2001). This guide is available from SPE (www.4spe.org).
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