| Robert Armstrong | |
| Birth Name: | Robert Calvin Armstrong |
| Fields: | Rheology |
| Workplaces: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma Mater: | Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973; B.ChE., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1970 |
| Thesis Title: | Obtaining constitutive equations for macro-molecular fluids from molecular theories |
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| Thesis Year: | 1973 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Robert Byron Bird |
| Doctoral Students: | Gareth H. McKinley[1] |
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Robert Calvin Armstrong is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering.[2] He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973, and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] [4]
Armstrong finished a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, also in Chemical Engineering.[5]