After receiving his bachelor's from Washington University and his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. John Slattery joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. After 30 years at Northwestern, including a stint as Department Chair, in 1989 he came to Texas A&M University in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1999 he was invited to join the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
He has published three textbooks and more than 140 papers. His current interest is the role of the second law in mechanics using published experiments, no adjustable parameters