Dr. Richard Karpeles Chemistry Department/College of Arts & Sciences Olney 502A Telephone: 978-934-3659 email: richard_karpeles@uml.edu

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·         University of Massachusetts Lowell –Full Time Lecturer, 2011

o    Teaching 2^nd semester Freshman Chemistry lecture

·         University of Massachusetts Lowell – Adjunct Professor, 2010

o    Taught 1^st and 2^nd semester Freshman Chemistry lectures and labs

·         University of New Haven - Adjunct Professor, Spring 2007

o    Taught two organic chemistry labs

·         Western CT State University - Adjunct Professor, Fall 2006

o    Taught two freshman chemistry labs

·         University of Southern California - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 1977 – Fall 1978

o    Freshman Chemistry and Advanced Organic Chemistry

o    Won outstanding teaching award   

Industrial Background

 Product Line Director, Fumed Metal Oxides

Responsible for transitioning New Business Development projects from development to production.  

Accomplishments

§ Identified and qualified a toll manufacturer to save over $14/kg  on 30MT of new product.

§ Developed a transition plan requiring minimal capital investment, to bring a new product in house using an under-utilized plant, saving $10/kg on 140MT of product

§ Created Technology Transfer Packages for 3 products, moving them to commercial production

§ Led Plant Technical Managers Forum to highlight best-of-best practices between facilities and execute a product grade transparency program to insure worldwide equivalence of Cabot silicas

§ Responsible for the coordination of the Fumed Metal Oxides business PSM program

 Technical Director, Water based coatings technologies for flexible packaging

Responsible for Customer Service, Experimental Production, and R&D of waterborne coatings

Manager, Materials, Fluid and Chemical Technologies

Hired to (1) create a Fluid & Chemical Technologies section to augment central research capabilities and (2) to manage the Materials Corporate Research Group with a staff of 14 and a budget of $2+M. Fields of concentration: material science, metallurgy, surface modification, nanocoatings, carbon friction surfaces, tribology, fluid chemistries, hydraulics, fuel cell technology, diesel exhaust emissions control, plastics, composites and rubber technology. 

Accomplishments

§ Created 2006-7 Fluid & Chemical Technologies strategy targeting over 20% growth per year in manpower and budget. Program funding eliminated due to automotive industry downturn

§ Drafted & submitted 4 government proposals (Air Force,  Army, Ohio 3^rd Frontier and DOE)

>  Won 2 proposals, increasing the group budget 10% in 2006 and 50% in 2007

  DOE proposal to develop new low coefficient of friction nanocoatings ($1M/yr for 3 yrs)

  Ohio 3^rd Frontier proposal for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Development ($50K)

§ Led team to solve automotive part fitness-for-use issue, which had shut down customer’s production line startup, thus avoiding greater than $20M in warrantee claims

§ Established formal process for documenting non-recordable and near-miss safety incidents to establish predictive safety statistics

Technology Director, Performance Chemicals & Polymers Division

Management of the Chemicals & Polymers Division’s Process and Product Research & Development Groups, the Polymer Testing Laboratory, the Catalysis & High Pressure Laboratory, and the Polymerization Pilot Plant.  Staff of 22, budget of $4.6MM 

־   Member of the R&D Technical Board, responsible for creating research strategy, Technical Board Liaison to the Research Associate’s Organization, Chairman, Technology Safety Council

־   Technology Advisor for the Chemicals and Polymers Business Boards

־   Project Leader, JDA programs with major chemical companies and academic institutions

־   Chairman, Tech. Operating Committee, International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers

Accomplishments

§ Re-engineered technology group & implemented staffing plan within three months

§ Developed Sales & Operational Planning system; integrated with R&D programs

§ Carried out detailed mass balances for Rubber Chemicals processes, enabling factory 2004 Title V permit renewal and insuring uninterrupted plant operation

§ Drafted CHP & Hazardous Waste & Emergency Response Plans for Naugatuck Research Center

§ Constructed new high pressure chemistry facility for improved productivity and safety – 2004

§ Created product line for thermoplastics (2004 sales 4.3MM lbs. with 40% growth rate)

§ Increased plant throughput by 7MM lbs. in 2004

§ Provided assistance to a licensee, whose plant was shut down due to fire, resulting in zero customer issues (Product and Customer Service Excellence Award)

§ Created best-in-class roofing products, gained 12MM lbs. new business (Quality Award – 1996)

§ Developed IP position for metallocene polymerization catalysts (Awarded 4 patents)

§ Developed new process for Viscosity Index Improvers (Crompton Technical Award – 1995)

§ New product development: wire and cable products (annual sales 8MM lbs.), bloom resistant weather seal product line (annual sales 45MM lbs.), lubricant additive products (14MM lbs. annual sales) (Technical Awards – 1995 & 1996; Quality Award – 1998)

§ Developed RoyalEdge^® process and product line (annual sales 2MM lbs.)

§ Commercialized additive used for 50% of polymer product line (Tech Award – 1993)

§ Created raw material consolidation plan for key customer and reduced their inventory 66%

§ Achieved full utilization of a new 80MM pound plant in two years via new product development

§ Constructed new pilot unit & labs for improved safety (Safety Award – 1991)

Research Chemist Exploratory Process Research Group

§ Ph.D. Chemistry under Nobel Lauriat, Prof. George A. Olah; University of Southern California

§ B.S. Chemistry, Research Advisor: Prof. Ed Rosenberg; California State University, Northridge

ACS (Rubber, Inorganic, Organic Divisions), ChemPharma , IISRP, SAE, Societe de Chemie

·       US 6,225,426 - Process for producing elastomer employing metallocene catalyst, May 2001

·       US 6,147,025 - Catalyst composition & process for activating pro-catalyst, November 2000

·       R. Karpeles, et al; Chapter 35 “EPDM Rubber Technology”, Handbook of Elastomers-Second Edition, A.K. Bhomick and H.L. Stephens (editors); Marcel Dekker, NY, November 2000

·       US 6,136,744 - Process for producing elastomer with metallocene catalyst, October 2000

·       US 6,060,572 - Process for producing elastomer employing metallocene catalyst, May 2000

·       R. Karpeles; “Emerging EPDM Technologies”, ACS Rubber Division, January 22, 1998

·       R. Karpeles, et al;  “A Comparison of Metallocene & Vanadium Single-Site Technology and the Viscoelastic Consistency of Vanadium Based EPDM Products”, Presented to the ACS Rubber Division,   May 9, 1997

·       R. Karpeles, et al; “The Evolution of Today’s Ziegler-Natta Catalysts for the Production of EPDM”, A Presentation to Flexpo ’96, Houston, Texas,  June 27, 1996

·       R. Karpeles, et al; “Evolution of Catalyst Technology for Royalene EPDM Production”; Rubber Technology International ‘96, June 1996

·       R. Karpeles et al; “An Introduction to the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Uses   of EPDM Rubber”, Presentation to ACS Rubber Division, Montreal, Canada, May 7, 1996

·       R. Karpeles and E.G. Kontos; “Recent Developments and Trends in the Synthetic Rubber Industry”, 3rd Panhellenic Polymer Conference, Thesseloniki, Greece, December 3, 1993

·       R. Karpeles, G.A. Olah, et al; “Selective Mono-halogenation of Methane over Supported Acidic or Platinum Metal Catalysts and Hydrolysis of Methyl Halides over µ-Alumina-Supported Metal Oxide/Hydroxide Catalysts.  A Feasible Path for the Oxidative Conversion of Methane into Methyl Alcohol / Dimethyl Ether”; JACS, 107, 7097-7105, 1985

·      R. Karpeles,  G.A. Olah, S. Narang; “Synthetic Methods and Reactions.107.  Preparation of w-Haloalkylcarboxylic Acids and Esters or Related Comlbs. from Lactones and Boron Halides”, Synthesis, (11), 963-5, 1985

·       R. Karpeles,  G.A. Olah, et al; “Ylide Chemistry.1. Bifunctional Acid-Base Catalyzed Conversion of Heterosubstituted Methanes into Ethylene and Derived Hydrocarbons. The Onium-Ylide Mechanism of the C₁ to C₂ Conversion”, JACS, 106 (7), 2143-9, 1984

·      R. Karpeles,  G.A. Olah, et al; “Synthetic Methods and Reactions.101. Reduction of Sulfonic Acids and Sulfonyl Derivatives to Disulfides with Iodide in the Presence of Boron Halides.”, JOC, 46, 2408, 1981

·       R. Karpeles, E. Rosenberg,  et al; “The Synthesis, Reactivity, and Structure of  Functionally Substituted Trimetallic Clusters of Ruthenium.”, J. Organometallic Chem., 187, 81-90, 1980