Biography:
Don MacElroy received his B.E. (1H1), Chemical Engineering, from University College Dublin in 1974 and his Ph.D., also in Chemical Engineering from the same institution in 1983. He was appointed visiting Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) in January 1982 and subsequently offered a tenure track at UMR at the same level in 1983. In 1989 he was appointed Associate Professor (tenured). He returned to UCD in 1991 as a Lecturer and was appointed Senior lecturer in 1996. In 2003 he was appointed to the Chair of Chemical Engineering and has been Head of Department since September 2003.

Teaching Responsibilities:
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (CHEN3006);
Process Control (CHEN4002);
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Processes CHEN4007);