JULES JOHN MAGDA portrait
  • Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Professional Service

  • Pittcon 2023. Role: co-organizer and session chair. co-orgainzer and session co-chair of Pittcon session entitled "Towards the Development of Hydrogel-based Sensors and Drug Delivery. 03/19/2023 - present
  • Petrophase Conference 2018 . Emulsions Session Co-Chair. 07/11/2018 - 07/11/2018
  • Petrophase Conference 2018 . Technical Program Co-Chair. 01/01/2018 - 07/31/2018
  • AIChE. 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting - San Francisco, CA. Session chair of "Heavy Oils and Flow Assurance I and II"; co-chair of session "Complex Subsurface Processes". 08/2013 - 12/2013
  • 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting. Session chair "Heavy oil and flow assurance", AIChE annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. 10/2012 - 11/2012
  • 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Session organizer and chair, "Heavy Oil and Flow Assurance". 10/2011 - 11/2011
  • AIChE. Session Organizer and Chair of "Characterization and Thermodynamics of Oil as Related to Flow Assurance", Sessions 1 & 2, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010. 03/2010 - 11/2010

Honors & Awards

  • Student Evaluation Teaching Award - ChEN 6853 Thermodynamics Placed in Top 15% of Fall 2013 Courses. College of Engineering, 09/2013
  • Winner of the Faculty Division, University of Utah Homecoming 5K Race. University of Utah Alumni Association, 09/2012
  • Dean's Letter - Top 15% in Teaching. College of Engineering, 12/2010
  • Dean's letter - top 15% in teaching. College of Engineering, 05/2010
  • Dean's Letter - Top 15% Teaching. College of Engineering, 05/2008

Internal Service

  • Undergraduate Committee. Member, 01/01/2016 - present. Department service.
  • Member of Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Committee. member, 12/04/2015 - 12/01/2017. Department service.
  • Member of search committee for new faculty hire, multiscale computation. member, 11/02/2015 - 12/2016. Department service.
  • Chair of faculty search committee, junior level position. 10/2013 - 12/01/2015. Department service.
  • RPT Chair. 08/2013 - 09/01/2019. Department service.
  • MSE Representative to College Committee on Excellence in Teaching. 05/2011 - 06/2012. Department service.
  • MS&E Representative to the College Math Committee. 08/2010 - 06/2012. Department service.
  • Chemical Engineering Graduate Admissions and Graduate Curriculum Committee. 08/2007 - 12/01/2015. Department service.

In the Media

  • Contributions of my research group to the University of Utah spin-out Applied Biosensors were featured in the 2015 Annual Report of the University of Utah Technology and Venture Commercialization Center. 12/15/2015.
  • Global Medical Discovery [ISSN 1929-8536] (https://globalmedicaldiscovery.com ), an online source of leading medical news, featured our publication "Effect of chemical composition on the response of zwitterionic glucose sensitive hydrogels studied by design of experiments" (J. Applied Polymer Chemistry). 04/13/2015. https://globalmedicaldiscovery.com/