Joseph Biernacki, chemical engineering professor, has been awarded Tennessee Tech University’s highest faculty honor, the 2018 Caplenor Faculty Research Award.
“Dr. Joseph Biernacki was selected as this year’s Caplenor Faculty Research awardee based on his extensive record of externally funded research and publication,” the Caplenor award committee said in a statement. “Dr. Biernacki is recognized by his colleagues as one of the most influential researchers in cementitious materials and his diverse and innovative research is highly valued.”
Biernacki’s current research has two focal areas, cement-based materials for infrastructure applications and processes for harvesting renewable carbon resources which have important fundamental research and practical applications.
The award established in 1984 in memory of Charles Donald Caplenor, former associate vice president for research and dean of instructional development. This is the second time Biernacki has received the award.
