Swalm School of Chemical Engineering. He has earned the Tommy M. Nusz Endowed Professorship, a new professorship within the BCoE. He has been published 91 times and teaches undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering classes. Inducted into the college’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2007, his extensive materials and energy engineering research has influenced graduate student research and helped secure external funding He also chairs sessions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and serves as the faculty adviser for the MSU chapter of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. He earned his doctoral degree in 1988 from the University of Missouri-Columbia.