Case School of Engineering Creates Office of Faculty Development
March, 2008
 Case School of Engineering (CSE) Dean and Nord Professor Norman C. Tien recently announced that the school has created a new Office of Faculty of Development, in partnership with the Office of the Dean. Ica Manas-Zloczower, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, will lead this initiative.
The office was formed to provide resources and initiate activities designed to enhance an ongoing sense of scholarly community and to support faculty in their continuing quest for excellence in research, teaching, outreach and leadership. The office and its resources will be available to assist with building a sense of community, fostering faculty development, improving policy and procedures and facilitating communications.
Among its planned initiatives are formal mentoring programs for young and mid-career faculty, training sessions for promotions and tenure committee members, and CSE town hall meetings.
Ica Manas-Zloczower, professor of macromolecular science and engineering and a member of the CSE faculty since 1985, will be the new associate dean of faculty development.
The Office will be led by Ica Manas-Zloczower, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, who developed the proposal for this initiative. A member of the CSE faculty since 1985, Ica will be the new Associate Dean of Faculty Development.
With more than 120 refereed publications and several book chapters, Ica's research is focused on the structure and micromechanics of fine particle clusters, dispersive mixing mechanisms and modeling, entropic characterization of mixing, design and mixing optimization studies for polymer processing equipment through flow simulations, microfluidics and microstructure characterization in multi-component systems using fractal analysis. She is a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, a member-at-large in the Polymer Processing Society Executive Committee. She is also the editor-in chief for the Journal of Polymer Engineering and a member of the book advisory board for Hanser Publishers.
Ica holds a D.S. from Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, and a B.S. and M. S. in chemical engineering from Polytechnic Institute, Jassy, Romania. She completed her post-doctoral studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Minnesota.
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