Christian Cuba-Torres

Senior Lecturer and E. J. Grassmann Fellow
Email Address
Telephone
Office Building
ES&T 1226
Office Room Number
1226
Research Interests

Engineering education, kinetics and reactor design.

Teaching Interests

Professor Cuba-Torres’ teaching interests encompass a broad number of core chemical and biomolecular engineering courses, laboratories, capstone senior design, and TA training courses. His instruction integrates fundamental principles with practical problem-solving, aiming to develop critical skills with active learning.

Education

PhD, 2015, Washington State University

BS, 2008, National University of Engineering (Peru)

Recent Publications

M. Prausnitz, C.M. Cuba-Torres, N. Liu, Y. Lee, “How Chemical Engineering Students Have Changed Over Two Decades: A perspective from Georgia Tech”, Chemical Engineering Education, Vol 56 No. 2 (2022).

C.M. Cuba-Torres, “From Online and Hybrid Instructional Modes To Residential Classes: Lessons Learned and Activities To Retain”, presented at the 2022 ASEE-SE Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, March 2022

Qusay Bkour, Christian Martin Cuba-Torres, Oscar Marin‐Flores, Shalini Tripathi, N. Ravishankar et al., Mechanistic study of the reduction of MoO2 to Mo2C under methane pulse conditions, Journal of Materials Science, 2018

C.M. Cuba-Torres, Q. Bkour, O. Marin-Flores, S. Tripathi, N. Ravishankar, M. G. Norton, S. Ha, “Mechanistic Study of the reduction of MoO2 to Mo2C under methane Pulse Conditions”, Journal of Materials Science, 53 (2018) 12816-12827.

C.M. Cuba-Torres, O. Marin-Flores, C.D. Owen, Z. Wang, M. Garcia-Perez, M.G. Norton, S. Ha, “Catalytic partial oxidation of a biodiesel surrogate over molybdenum dioxide”, Fuel, 146 (2015) 132-137.
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2015.01.003

Z.H. Wang, A.G. McDonald, R.J.M. Westerhof, S.R.A. Kersten, C.M. Cuba-Torres, S. Ha, B. Pecha, M. Garcia-Perez, “Effect of cellulose crystallinity on the formation of a liquid intermediate and on product distribution during pyrolysis”, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 100 (2013) 56-66.