2019 Lindback Winner - Kevin Dahm

Dr. Kevin Dahm has been in the Chemical Engineering Department at Rowan since 1999. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February of 1998. He spent 10 months as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California at Berkeley and one semester as an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina A&T State University prior to joining the faculty at Rowan. In his time at Rowan, in addition to Principles of Chemical Processes I, he has taught Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I and II, Chemical Plant Design, Chemical Process Component Design, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Equilibrium Staged Operations (which later become Separations I), Sophomore Engineering Clinic I and II and Freshman Engineering Clinic I. He has published a book with his father, Donald Dahm, called "Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance", and has written a textbook Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics with Donald Visco, a colleague from the University of Akron. This semester Dr. Dahm has a reduced teaching load because of two major service activities that he has taken on for Rowan University: he serves as chair of the Senate Tenure and Recontracting committee, and is leading the Chemical Engineering department’s accreditation efforts.

Dr. Dahm lives in Sewell and while he loves his house, he also loves to travel. So far he has been to 47 states (missing North Dakota, Nebraska and Idaho) as well as Canada, Mexico, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, Greece, and Turkey, and a number of Caribbean island countries. He has been active in college and community theater since he was a freshman in college. His favorite play that he has done is "The Boys Next Door". His most recent production was "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Village Playbox, last November. He has also been playing chess competitively for many years, and can be found on the website “chess.com” under the name “kevdahm”.