Dear Colleagues,
It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of alumnus and longtime adjunct professor Prof. Dino Favetta on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. He was involved with the Department of Chemical Engineering for 35 years and a number of our current faculty members interacted with him for more than a decade.
Dino received both his B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens in 1980. He was employed immediately after graduation by ExxonMobil where he spent approximately five years, at which time he left to launch his own company, Controlamatics.
Dino was highly knowledgeable and I was always amazed by his depth of knowledge in chemical engineering, especially in control systems. He taught as an adjunct professor in the late 90’s precursor to the Design Spine set up by the late chemical engineering professor Harry Silla, prior to the introduction of the major core curriculum change to meet ABET 2000 requirements. In this lab – a core design lab which Dino was instrumental in developing, taken by all engineering students when there were only three core design courses – he and his students would build a liquid-level controlled system using programmable logic control.
Dino was also a long-term adjunct professor in the department, teaching ChE 661 - Process Control and co-teaching MT 588 - Electrochemical Materials for Energy and Sustainability. Since the beginning of AY 21-22 until his passing, he was co-supervising one of our Senior Design projects. For decades, he provided his technical knowledge and expertise to me and other CEMS faculty on our funded research projects.
Dino attended both our last Executive Advisory Board meeting and he and his wife were in attendance at the December holiday party. He was a very good friend of the department.
His younger daughter, Nicole Favetta, received her B.Eng. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 and M.Eng. in Engineering Management in 2012, both from Stevens.
His funeral was held Sunday, January 15th. You can read his obituary by clicking here. It was clear that he cherished and was very proud of his association with Stevens. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Thank you,
Adeniyi Lawal
Professor and Department Chair for the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science
