Richard H. Heist

Dean of the School of Engineering

and

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Dean Heist came to Manhattan College in June 2000 when he assumed the positions of Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering.  He spent the previous 26 years at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY where he was a member of the Chemical Engineering faculty and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for Engineering and Arts and Sciences from 1992 to 1998.

At Rochester he taught undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, kinetics and reactor design, air pollution, water pollution, and chemical process principles.  He taught graduate courses in thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and kinetics of phase transitions.  He received the Engineering Outstanding Teacher award three times.  He was also heavily involved in teaching undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory.  Along with colleagues Howard Saltsburg and Thor Olsen, he developed an undergraduate engineering laboratory based entirely on microcomputer-based data acquisition, control, and data analysis.  While under the direction of Saltsburg, Olsen, and Heist, the undergraduate Chemical Engineering laboratory at Rochester served as a model for engineering teaching laboratories on a national level. 

Dean Heist's research interests involve nucleation, nucleation-related phenomena, cavitation, aerosols and other ultra-fine particles, and educational applications of microcomputers.  He is Director of the Nucleation Laboratory in the Chemical Engineering Department at Manhattan College.  He has published extensively in the field of nucleation.  Representative publications are listed and summaries of those papers are available on his publications web pages on this site.  Specific information regarding his research interests can also be found on his research web pages on this site.

On a more personal level, Dean Heist is interested in sailing, canoeing, handball, 17th - 18th century history of northeastern US, and computer interfacing.  He currently lives in White Plains with his wife, Molly, a Registered Nurse.  Among many things, they enjoy reading, traveling, and cooking together.  Their daughter, Amy, is a graduate of Valparaiso University with a degree in Environmental Science and a (soon-to-be) graduate of Western Michigan University with a M.S. in Environmental Science.  Amy and husband, Matt, live in Morocco, IN on the Gibson family farm. 

Richard H. Heist

School of Engineering

Manhattan College

Manhattan College Parkway

Riverdale, NY  10471-4098

rheist@manhattan.edu

deanengr@manhattan.edu

718-862-7281 (W)

718-862-8015 (F)