明大化工系尊敬的教授，美国工程院院士，明大5位 Regents Professors 之一的 Prof. Skip Scriven 于上周五逝世……虽然几个月前已得知 Skip 患上胰腺癌，但昨天听到这个消息时，还是万分震惊……
记得刚到美国时，Prof. Scriven 是我最敬仰的教授之一，私下里还和大宝把他比作“牛顿”。虽然无缘 Prof.Scriven 的流体力学，也没能作成他直系的学生，但是对 Prof. Scriven 一直保持着一份崇拜之情。如今……
（ 以下段落内容引自系内信件和“qjdulan.spaces.live.com” blog 网页。）
To good friends, colleagues, co-advised graduate students, staff,
I am sorry to tell you that Skip died, peacefully, at the hospital on Friday August 3rd after six months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He did not wish a funeral. He considered the earlier “Skipfest” to be a proper and complete celebration of his life.
Lorraine Francis, Wieslaw Suszynski, Phil Jensen, Karen Dalmacio and especially his former secretary, Jackie O’Brien, have been helping him wind up his academic affairs over the past months.
Thanks to all for a wonderful, fulfilling 47 years in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science!
-Dorene Scriven
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Professor Scriven earned his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. the University of Delaware in 1956. After working as a Research Engineer for the Shell Development Co. in Emeryville, CA, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1959. He became a Full Professor in 1966 and Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute and past member of the Graduate Faculties of Biophysics and of Fluid Mechanics.
Professor Scriven has advised or co-advised over 100 Ph.D. students and authored over 400 publications. His work on coating processes includes coil coating, blade coating, spray application, spin coating, slot coating, and others. His research has combined experimental, theoretical and computer modeling approaches wherein he and his co-workers have shown the power of large finite element models to elucidate the causes of various processing issues such as ribbing instabilities. He has developed key understandings around the effects of rheological properties, evaporation rates, internal stresses and process boundary conditions on coating applications. He has improved experimental techniques for flow visualization and controlled freezing techniques to arrest solidification and enable the use of advanced microscopy techniques in coatings characterization. His research has been applied to coil coating processes, paper coating, inkjet printers, magnetic and optical disks, photographic films, liquid crystal displays, automotive finishes, printed circuits, optical fibers and others. More recently he has carried out very detailed studies of the compaction processes and water movement in latex films and the stresses that coalesce latexes.
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