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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Debasish Dutta
Debasish (Deba) Dutta is Dean of the Graduate College and Associate Provost at
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and a Scholar-in-Residence at
the National Academy of Engineering. During 2004-07 he served at the National
Science Foundation as Acting Director of the Division of Graduate Education,
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
Director and as Advisor in the Office of Assistant Director, Education and
Human Resources. He chaired the Learning and Workforce Development sub-
committee during the development of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Strategy
(Vision for 21st Century Discovery).
At Illinois, Deba is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of
Mechanical Science and Engineering. Prior to this he was on the faculty of
mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A Fellow of
AAAS and ASME, Deba Dutta has received several awards including the ASME
Design Automation award and the NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative
Excellence. He is a member of ASEE and SME.
Lalit Patil
Lalit Patil is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Mechanical Science and
Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
manages research at the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Lab. Prior to this
he was a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
James B. Porter, Jr.
James B. Porter, Jr. was chief engineer and vice president of Engineering and
Operations for DuPont until his retirement in September 2008. Jim joined the
company in 1966 as a chemical engineer in the engineering service division
(ESD) field program at the Engineering Test Center in Newark, Delaware. He
left the same year for a tour in the United States Army and returned in April 1968
as a technical services engineer at DuPont’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, fibers
plant. He was named vice president of Engineering on November 1, 1996, and
became vice president of Safety, Health & Environment and Engineering on
February 1, 2004. He assumed the position of Chief Engineer and Vice President
of DuPont Engineering and Operations on July 1, 2006.
Jim has served as chair for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and he was
the 2004 recipient of CII’s Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence. In 2005 he
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received the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association Achievement
Award and in 2007 he was honored with the Society of Women Engineers
Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award. In 2008 he was the inaugural recipient of
FIATECH’s “James B. Porter, Jr. Award for Technology Leadership.” He is a
member of several boards of directors and is on the Argonne National Laboratory
Board of Governors.
Jim is the founder and President of Sustainable Operations Solutions, LLC,
which provides consulting services to help companies make significant and
sustainable improvements in workplace safety, process safety management,
capital effectiveness, and operations productivity.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he received a bachelor of science degree in
chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1965.
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