Dianne Dorland

Dianne Dorland was born and raised in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. After receiving her BS and MS in chemical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, she moved to West Virginia in 1970. She worked for Union Carbide Research and Development in South Charleston and then as a process engineer for Dupont at Belle until the births of her son and daughter. Dorland taught at West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1981-82 as an assistant professor before attending West Virginia University and receiving her PhD in 1985.

Dorland worked for the U.S. Department of Energy at the Morgantown Energy and Technology Center. She moved to the department of chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1986 and served as chair of that department from 1990 to 2000. Her areas of research focused on pollution prevention and hazardous waste management. She served on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Great Lakes Initiative advisory committee, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources taconite enhancement committee, the Governor’s Task Force on Mining and Minerals for Northeastern Minnesota, and was chair of the toxic technical advisory committee for the St. Louis Watershed Remedial Action Plan.

Since 2000, Dorland has served as dean of the college of engineering at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Dorland has been active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers throughout her career, serving as the president-elect of AIChE for 2002 and assuming the presidency in 2003. A licensed Professional Engineer in West Virginia, Minnesota and New Jersey, she also serves the National Society of Professional Engineers on the Professional Engineers In Education executive board as a sustaining university program governor.