Bio: E. Bruce Nauman, Ph.D., is one of the world?s most respected authorities on chemical engineering. An international consultant with E.B. Nauman & Associates since 1982, he worked in industry for nearly 20 years with such firms as Xerox and Union Carbide. He is the author of four books and more than 100 journal articles, and holds six patents, with numerous foreign counterparts. Past president of the North American Mixing Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, associate editor of two chemical engineering journals, chairman of two Engineering Foundation Conferences, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he earned his doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom. He lives in Schenectady, New York.