Davé on the road again?

Rajesh Davé of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is heading for a major career award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He is a distinguished professor of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering and has won the AlChE's 2015 Lectureship Award in Fluidization, a process for agitating solids such as powders and particles in order to make them behave like liquids. His work has led to advances in such diverse areas as weapons safety and drug delivery systems, many of which have been patented.