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EARNEST F. GLOYNA
Pages 150-155

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... His vision was to build excellent facilities and hire superb faculty, knowing that these two ingredients would attract the necessary third: top-notch students. That vision became reality thanks to his shrewd leadership and excellent management skills.
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... was translated into many languages and used all over the world for several decades. His 1991 paper "Generalized Kinetic Model for Wet Oxidation of Organic Compounds," coauthored with Lixiong Li and Peishi Chen, was his most highly cited work.1 Over the decades he both taught graduate classes on and consulted widely on the treatment of industrial waste, working on international projects with the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
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... His involvement in such projects also effectively represented his interest in engineering to provide accessible approaches to health problems in developing countries and his belief, more broadly, that development should be associated with promoting, not impairing, the health and well-being of people and other living things. He stepped down as dean at the age of 70 and had a highly productive research career for the next 10 years, primarily investigating the possible use of supercritical water oxidation as a treatment process for highly recalcitrant organic compounds present in industrial wastes.
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... As dean he led initiation of UT's Equal Opportunity in Engineering program, and under his leadership the school saw a significant increase in the number of minorities and women who enrolled in engineering programs. He demanded a lot from all who worked in the College of Engineering, but no more than he demanded of himself.
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