Chemical Engineering Bids Farewell to Professor Don Weinkauf

Professor Don Weinkauf, the long time chair of chemical engineering, left the department in June of 2008, to become the Dean of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Don was the guest speaker for the Chemical Engineering Spring Banquet, where he was presented with a painting of the Capitol Bar with a border signed by students and colleagues.

Don came to New Mexico Tech in 1996 from Shell Oil. He was instrumental in starting up the Department of Chemical Engineering and guiding it to the position it is currently in. All of us wish Don, Holly, Madeline, Eli, and Roan well in Minnesota.