Email:
lds@byu.edu

Phone:
801.422.8930

Fax:
801.422.0151

Address:
435A CTB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602

General Background

Dr. Smoot has been at Brigham Young University since 1967 and was department chairman from 1970-1977, Dean of Engineering and Technology from 1977 through 1994, and Director of ACERC from its beginning in 1986 to 1997. Previous experience included four years at Lockheed, one year at California Institute of Technology and summers with Hercules, Phillips Petroleum Company and Boeing. He has also consulted with over sixty companies and agencies in energy, combustion and propulsion areas in the united States, Europe and the Orient. He is a member of AIChE, ASEE, The Combustion Institute, and NFPA and has received six state or regional awards. He has presented or published over 200 technical articles, eight invited review articles and four books on combustion. He has completed a term f service on the Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council for the State of Utah. He also received the first Distinguished Faculty Award and its Presidential Medal in 1985. Dr. Smoot has recently been awarded a Combustion Professorship at BYU and was named the 1995 Outstanding Faculty Member in Engineering and Technology.