Edward L. Cussler, currently distinguished institute professor at the University of Minnesota, received the B.E. with honors from Yale University in 1961, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1963 and 1965, respectively. Soon after, he went to teach in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1980, Gussler joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Multicomponent Diffusion, published in 1976, and Diffusion, published in 1984 with a second edition published in 1997. He is the co-author of Membrane Separation Systems, Bioseparations, and most recently, Chemical Product Design, the English edition of which was published in 2001.
