Phillip C. Wankat is the Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include adsorption, large-scale chromatography, simulated moving bed systems, distillation, and improvements in engineering education. He received Purdue University’s highest faculty award, the Morrill Award, in 2016. With K. S. Knaebel, he contributed the Mass Transfer section to Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, Eighth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008).