Dr. Morris Argyle grew up in Idaho Falls, ID and received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1990. Following graduation, he worked for over seven years at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas refinery, in a number of positions, including process design, operations support, coordination and economics, and as a technical and an operations supervisor. Argyle left industry in 1998 to attend graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was advised by Professors Alexis T. Bell and Enrique Iglesia and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2003. His dissertation research involved synthesis, characterization, and kinetic/mechanistic evaluation of metal oxide heterogeneous catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of light alkanes to form alkenes. In 2003, Argyle became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, where he was promoted to Associate Professor and served as Department Head in 2008-2009. He has taught classes on material and energy balances, process simulation and engineering economics, portions of senior design, kinetics and chemical reaction engineering, fluid dynamics, and an introduction to engineering computing. Argyle's research interests lie in determining the structure/function relationships of heterogeneous catalysts using spectroscopic techniques, plasma reaction engineering, coal gasification, and new methods for carbon dioxide capture and storage. He and his wife, Stephanie, who is also a chemical engineer (University of Michigan, 1991), have five children.
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