Jafar Sadeq is a graduate student in chemical engineering at TAMU-Kingsville. He received his BSc degree in chemical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Before entering graduate school, he worked in the rubber and plastics division of Bata Shoe Company in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Horacio A. Duarte received his BS from the lnstituto Tecnologico de Durango (Mexico), his MS from ITESM (Mexico), and his PhD from Texas A&M University, all in chemical engineering. He has taught at TAMUKingsville for the past two years. Previously he was research associate at TAMU-College Station and taught at ITESM and lnstituto Tecnologico de Durango, Mexico.
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Robert W. Serth received his BS from the University of Rochester and his PhD from SUNY-Buffalo, both in chemical engineering. He obtained an MS in mathematics from the University of Arizona. He has taught at TAMU-Kingsville for the past eighteen years. Prior to that he taught at the University of Puerto Rico and was a senior research engineer with Monsanto.
