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Lawrence B. Evans
Founder, Aspen Technology, Inc.
Chairman and CEO, 1981-2002
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1962-1990 |
| Lawrence B. Evans founded Aspen Technology in
1981 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until
2002. Under his leadership the company grew from a start-up
to become the leading provider of software and solutions to
the process-manufacturing industries. Evans was professor of
chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1962 to 1990, where he was well known for his work in
computer-aided process design and process control. He is president-elect
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in
2006 and will be president in 2007. Evans has received numerous
awards, including the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award
of the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE in
1982. In 1997 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for high
technology in the New England region in a competition sponsored
by Ernst & Young. Fortune magazine named him one of seven
U.S. “Heroes of Manufacturing” in 1999, when he
also received the University of Michigan College of Engineering’s
Alumni Society Merit Award from the Department of Chemical
Engineering. In 2001 Evans was elected to the National Academy
of Engineering. Chemical Engineering magazine chose him for
the 2002 Award for Personal Achievement in Chemical Engineering.
In 2003 he was elected to the University of Oklahoma College
of Engineering Distinguished Graduates Society. Evans holds
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma.
He earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in chemical
engineering at the University of Michigan. |
