Faculty
James Riggs' Experience
Experience
- Director of the Texas Tech Process Control and Optimization Consortium, 1992-present.
- Industrial Process Control Consultant, Responsible for the application of advanced control to distillation columns for several companies (Dow Chemical, Amoco, Air Products, Celanese, Honeywell, Exxon Chemical, and Phillips Petroleum) 1987 - present.
- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1990 - present.
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1983-1990.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, 1978-1983.
- Technical Service Engineer, Exxon Chemical Company, Baytown, TX, 1969-1971. Responsible for trouble shooting and short range design problems for a plant that produced polypropylene and a plant that produced linear paraffins.