Pike, Ralph W.

Ralph W. Pike is the Director of the Minerals Processing Research Division and is the Paul M. Horton Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University. His degrees are in chemical engineering, doctorate and bachelors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of a textbook on optimization for engineering systems and coauthor of four other books on design and modeling of chemical processes. He has directed fifteen doctoral dissertations and sixteen masters' theses in chemical engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Louisiana and Texas. His...