2007 ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership
featuring
C. Judson King
Provost and Senior Vice President –
Academic Affairs, Emeritus
The University of California System
“Ethics and Leadership: Reflections from a
Public Research University”
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
Reception immediately following
C. Judson King
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C. Judson King is Provost and Senior Vice President – Academic Affairs, Emeritus, of the University of California system, and is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering on the Berkeley campus. He presently directs the Center for Studies in Higher Education on the Berkeley campus. He was previously Provost – Professional Schools and Colleges, Dean of the College of Chemistry, and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, all on the Berkeley campus.
Throughout a 45-year professorial career at Berkeley, he has published 240 research papers with co-workers and has written a text, Separation Processes, which was used widely through two editions. His research in separations has included the use of reversible chemical complexation through solvent extraction and adsorption; spray drying, freeze drying and freeze concentration; and systematic process synthesis and design. His activities have now turned to higher education policy and governance, as well as the future of scholarly communication and publication.
A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has chaired and participated in a number of activities of the Academy and the National Research Council. He has been closely involved for the past 12 years with, and has chaired, the California Council on Science and Technology, a body that carries out roles analogous to the national academies and the National Research Council for the State of California. He was a co-founder and subsequently Chair of the Council for Chemical Research. He has received awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Council for Chemical Research, and the Yale Science and Engineering Association.
He has chaired the boards of directors of both the American University of Armenia and the California Association for the Advancement of Astronomy, which oversees the twin Keck ten-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. A 45-year aficionado of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the canyons of Southern Utah and Arizona, he and his wife of 50 years, Jeanne, still undertake an annual week-long trek along the spine of the Sierra Nevada.
The ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership
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In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering graduate C.J. “Pete” Silas, The Phillips Petroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of Chemical Engineering to develop the Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership and quality, founded on the basics of strong communication skills and professionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineering education. This program spotlights the importance of ethics and leadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integrated into the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed in an annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethicists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.
Previous Silas Program Lecturers
Elsa Reichmanis
Bell Labs Fellow and Director of the Materials Research Department,
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior VP & Chief Science and Technology
Officer, DuPont
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
President and CEO of Shell Oil Products U.S.,
and President Shell Oil Company, and Country Chair for Shell U.S.
Charles “Garry” Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer,
EarthLink, Inc.
William G. Paul
Attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and
President Emeritus, American Bar Association
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Merck & Company, Inc.
Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Motorola, Inc.
Shaun F. O’Malley
Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the Ethics Resource
Center of Pricewaterhouse, LLP
C.J. “Pete” Silas
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Phillips Petroleum Company