- Environmental Engineering
- My interest is in engineering concepts related to environmental science
and policy, with emphasis on the causes of environmental problems and technologies for
their abatement. I focus on regional air pollution from mobile and stationary sources,
global atmospheric effects including climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion,
hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes, the environmental impacts of energy sources,
wastewater characteristics and treatment: the effects of pollutants on receiving waters,
soil contamination and remediation, landfill practices, and on technology and economics of
recycling.
- Within the broader field of chemical engineering, I am interested in
processes for reducing air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources, catalysis,
polyolefin polymerization, and polymer processing.
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- Management
- I concentrate on the valuation of technology, especially on the
relationship of R&D projects to the perceived value of the corporation in which they
are embedded. The methodologies used involve the translation of standard financial
measurements into pro forma business plans, discounted cash flow analysis, sensitivity
analysis, decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis and options analysis. These methods are
also applied to R&D portfolios to determine the effects of diversification and R&D
productivity on risk and value.
- Currently, I am focusing on the application of "real option"
theory to R&D project analysis.
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- Selected Publications
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"How do you Assess the Value of your Technology?" F. Peter Boer, Chemtech,
29(1), 14-21 (1999).
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The Valuation of Technology: Business and Financial Issues in
R&D, F. Peter Boer (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999).
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"Traps, Pitfalls and Snares in the Valuation of Technology,"
F. Peter Boer, Research-Technology Management, 41(5), 45-54 (1998).
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"Controlling Power Plant Nox Emissions," F.P. Boer, L.L.
Hegedus, T.R. Gouker, and K.P. Zak, Chemtech, 20(5), 312-319
(1990).