Name Mark Holtzapple | Role Professor | |
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Dr mark holtzapple at the booker t washington high school for engineering professions
Mark Holtzapple is a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on technologies that improve sustainability.
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- Dr mark holtzapple at the booker t washington high school for engineering professions
- Dr mark holtzapple texas a m university
- Childhood
- Education
- Career
- Teaching
- Research
- Military
- Academic
- Public Service
- Commercialization Activities
- Earth Energy Renewables
- StarRotor Corporation
- References
Dr mark holtzapple texas a m university
Childhood
In 1956, Mark Holtzapple was born to Joan Carol and Arthur Robert Holtzapple in Enid, Oklahoma. In his early years, Mark's father was an Air Force pilot, so the family moved frequently. After Enid, his family moved to Dover, Delaware, and then to Japan. In 1961, his father left the Air Force to become an architect and his family returned to the United States to live in York, Pennsylvania. In 1972, the family moved to Bloomington, Minnesota where he graduated from Bloomington Lincoln High School in 1974.
Education
In 1978, Mark Holtzapple earned his B.S. in chemical engineering at Cornell University. In 1981, he earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
From 1981 to 1985, Mark Holtzapple served in the U.S. Army, mostly stationed at the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, where he rose to the rank of captain. There, he researched water desalination and microclimate cooling, a method to prevent heat stress in soldiers encapsulated in chemical protective clothing.
In 1986, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Holtzapple's research interests include the following: fuels and chemicals from biomass, food and feed processing, water desalination, high-efficiency air conditioning, high-efficiency engines, jet ejectors, compressors, expanders, conversion of waste heat to electricity, high-torque electric motors, and vertical-lift aircraft.
Teaching
Research
Military
Academic
Public Service
Teaching
Dr. Holtzapple currently teaches thermodynamics, unit operations laboratory, foundations of engineering, bioprocess engineering, and seminar. Previously, he has taught introduction to chemical engineering, reaction kinetics, and bioprocess engineering. He co-authored Foundations of Engineering and Concepts in Engineering.
Commercialization Activities
Dr. Holtzapple's research has resulted in two spin-off companies.
Earth Energy Renewables
Earth Energy Renewables was founded to commercialize the following technologies:
StarRotor Corporation
StarRotor Corporation was founded to commercialize the following technologies: