Jeffrey Rice, Ph.D. profile and information

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Jeffrey Rice, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). After graduate school he helped transition technology he developed during his PhD to a startup company, Cytomx, which now has multiple drugs in clinical trials. After helping with the technology transfer, he was awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship which allowed him to begin a four-year postdoctoral position at École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, in Switzerland, where he published papers in tissue engineering and patented findings. At Auburn, Dr. Rice has taught several foundational courses involved in chemical and biochemical process engineering. These include principles of chemical engineering, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and separation processes. He has also taught advanced subject matter in biomedical and protein engineering courses. In keeping with the theme of bioengineering, Dr. Rice also became interested in beer brewing as a hobby which has led to the development of a process engineering course within Brewing Science and Operations at Auburn University.