School of Green Chemistry and Engineering

SGCE Leadership and Organization

 

Operating Committee
Mark Mson
Dr. Mark Mason
Director, SGCE
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
419.530.1532
mark.mason5@utoledo.edu
Glenn Lipscomb
Dr. Glenn Lipscomb
Associate Director, SGCE
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
419.530.8088
glenn.lipscomb@utoledo.edu
 Marc Seigar Dr. Marc Seigar
Dean and Professor, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
marcus.seigar@utoledo.edu
 Patricia Relue Dr. Patricia Relue
Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering
patricia.relue@utoledo.edu

External Advisory Board
Amy Cannon Co-Founder & Executive Director Beyond Benign
Joseph Cotruvo President (US EPA, retired) Joseph Cotruvo and Associates, LLC
Aaron Coulter Process Engineering Manager PBF Energy (Toledo Refinery Corp)
Dave Foulkes Environmental Specialist Ohio EPA
David Green Expert Applied Sustainability BASF
Tom Hughes General Partner Halden Enterprises, LLC
Nate Gaubert Manager of Research & New Product Development Spartan Chemical Company
Annie Labut Managing Toxicologist, Green Chemistry & Sustainability NSF International
Nancy Linde Senior Toxicologist ToxServices, LLC
Joel Tickner Professor of Public Health, UMass; & Executive Director Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Green Chemistry and Commerce Council 

      

Organization

The School of Green Chemistry and Engineering is led by an operating committee consisting of the Director, Associate Director, Dean of the College of Engineering and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. An External Advisory Board of academic, industry, government and community leaders provides oversight and direction for the SGCE. In addition, a Program Manager will assist with student recruitment, marketing and advertising, accounting, grant proposal submissions, outreach activities and day to day operations.

The organizational structure is illustrated in the figure below. The SGCE is organized to avoid competition with existing departmental and college structure for resources. To maintain a good working relationship, to garner internal support and to avoid conflict and duplication of effort, the SGCE is organized to add to and strengthen the existing structure, promoting and facilitating mutually beneficial academic programs, interdisciplinary projects and research in areas of green chemistry and green engineering.

 

 
SGCE Organizational Structure


The director reports directly to the Dean of the College in which the director holds a tenured faculty appointment. Currently, that is the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The director also reports indirectly and works closely with the Dean of the College of Engineering. The director also works with department chairs regarding pertinent teaching and service assignments of relevance to the SGCE. Associated faculty and staff and their budget lines remain with individual departments, not the SGCE.

Last Updated: 9/7/23