Chemical Engineering Department

William E. King

Bill King

Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Phone: (570) 577-3403
Fax: (570) 577-1141
wking@bucknell.edu 







Educational Background:

  • B.S., University of Pittsburgh
  • M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Teaching Experience:

  • Bucknell University, 1983-Present
  • University of Maryland, 1975-80

Teaching Specialties:

  • Process Control
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

Industrial Experience:

  • Gulf Research and Development Company
  • Cities Service Research and Development Company
  • Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Selected Publications: 

  • "On the Analysis of Oxygen Diffusion and Reaction in Biological Systems" Math Biosciences, 83, 179-190 (1987).

  • "An Analysis of Systemic Tumor Oxygenation Using Multi-Region Models," Chemical Engineering Communications, 64, 137-153 (1988).

  • "Steady-State Solution of Diffusion-Reaction Problems with a Discontinuous Boundary Condition Using Orthogonal Collocation on Finite Elements", Chemical Engineering Science, 43, 1206-9 (1988).

  • "An Anaysis of Steady-State Temperature Profiles in Tumors During Photodynamic Therapy", AIChE Symposium Series, 85, 389-93 (1989).

  • "Temperature Rise in Tumor Tissue During High Dose-Rate Photoradiation", Math Biosciences, 114, 135-48 (1993).