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The School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University hosted Dr. Daniel D. Burkey for their annual ConocoPhillips Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Education on September 29-30, 2025.

Burkey is the Castlemann Term Professor of Engineering Innovation, associate dean of Undergraduate Education and Diversity and the graduate director of the Engineering Education Ph.D. Program at the University of Connecticut.  Burkey holds his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, his M.S.C.E.P. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut.  Prior to UConn, he held positions at Northeastern University and at GVD Corporation in Cambridge, MA. 

Since joining UConn in 2010, Burkey’s area of research has focused broadly on engineering education and game-inspired educational techniques.  Burkey currently serves as a director of the Education Division of AIChE, where he runs the Future Faculty Mentoring Program.  He is a past program chair of the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division and serves as an assistant editor of the journal Chemical Engineering Education.  In 2020, he was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering for his contributions to engineering education in the state.  In addition to his many teaching awards, Burkey is also the recipient of the 2020 AIChE Education Division Innovation Award, the 2021 ASEE Corcoran Award for the best paper in Chemical Engineering Education in the previous year, and the 2023 David Himmelblau Award from the CAST Division of AIChE for innovations in computer-aided chemical engineering education.  He was inducted as a Fellow of AIChE in 2024.  

Since 1967, the annual ConocoPhillips Lecture Series has become a highlight of the entire seminar program in the school. Guest lecturers from across the nation, who have distinguished themselves in chemical engineering education, have made timely and insightful presentations to the audience in Stillwater. OSU is very grateful to ConocoPhillips and its ancestor, The Phillips Petroleum Co., for its sustained partnership since 1967 and to the lecturers who have shared their ideas.