Faculty

James Steffe, Professor

Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1979
M.S., Michigan State University, 1976
P.E., Licensed Professional Engineer, State of Michigan

209 Farrall Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1224
Phone: (517) 353-4544
Lab: (517) 355-7714, Ext. 191
Fax: (517) 353-8982
E-mail: steffe@msu.edu

Research Interests: 

Bioprocess engineering, process design for shear-sensitive fluids, rheology of biological materials, pipeline design for sanitary manufacturing systems, and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.

Instructional Activities:

BE/FSC 329 – Fundamentals of Food Engineering
BE 350 – Heat and Mass Transfer in Biosystems
BE/FSC 477 – Food Engineering: Fluids
BE 478 – Food Engineering: Solids
BE 825 – Properties of Biological Materials

Outreach Focus:

Applied problems in food engineering and food rheology.

Recent Publications:

Steffe JF and Daubert CR. "Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis." Freeman Press, East Lansing, MI, 2006.  ISBN: 0-9632036-2-2 and/or ISBN-13: 978-0-9632036-2-5.

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