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Baygents Appointed Interim Dean of Academic Affairs for UA College of Engineering

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Baygents Appointed Interim Dean of Academic Affairs for UA College of Engineering

Jan. 28, 2009
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James C. Baygents is the College of Engineering’s new interim associate dean of academic affairs. He succeeds Jeff Goldberg, who recently became the College’s interim dean.

James C. Baygents is the College of Engineering’s new interim associate dean of academic affairs. He succeeds Jeff Goldberg, who recently became the College’s interim dean.

Jim Baygents joined UA Engineering faculty as assistant professor in 1991, the same year he got his doctorate in chemical engineering from Princeton University. Baygents received a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton in 1981 and a bachelor’s degree in the same subject from Rice University in 1980.

Jim Baygents
Jim Baygents

For three years before joining UA, Baygents was a visiting scientist, then a research fellow, at the NASA Space Science Laboratory of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995 he received the Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honor Society award for outstanding faculty service. In 1997 he was awarded an International Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation for study at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Lambda Upsilon societies; and of the College of Fellows at Rice University’s Will Rice College.

“Jim has a clear sense of the goals of an engineering education,” said Goldberg. “He has worked on all phases of our curricula, including analysis, practice and design, teamwork, communication, and ethics. And he is well known for being a passionate advocate for quality in education, from both faculty and student perspectives.”

Baygents’ research interests include transport processes in natural and engineered systems; separation processes; diffusion-reaction-precipitation in aqueous electrolyte systems; electrokinetic theory, measurements and separations; electrically driven fluid motion and transport processes, including microfluidics; physicochemical hydrodynamics; and pattern formation in caves associated with Karst water systems. He is a member of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and the Program in Applied Mathematics at the UA.