Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Biography
Joontaek Park is an associate teaching professor and ABET coordinator in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. He has taught chemical engineering courses at various levels, including engineering computations, fluid flow, process safety, separations, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena. His teaching interests focus on enhancing learning through visualized instructional materials and incorporating contemporary, real-world applications into course examples. His teaching is also informed by his industrial and research experiences. As a research engineer at SK Engineering & Construction, he contributed to the design and start-up of distillation columns and to the planning of refinery configurations. Prior to joining the University of Missouri, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on theoretical and numerical modeling of complex fluids: Previous works include field-flow fractionation for shape-based particle separation, entangled polymer systems, polymer melt extrusion for 3D printing, application of ferrofluids in advanced manufacturing, and microbubble streaming of polymer solutions. Some of his projects were funded by Honeywell and NSF.
Education
PhD from the University of Florida
MS from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
BS from Seoul National University