MICHAEL B. CUTLIP is professor emeritus of the Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut where he has served as department head and director of the university's Honors Program. He has B. Ch. E. and M. S. degrees from Ohio State and a Ph. D. from the University of Colorado. He has been the Chair and National Program Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division plus he co-chaired the ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering faculty in 2002. His current interests include the development of general software for numerical problem solving, and he is co-author of the Polymath Numerical Problem Solving Software.
When time allows he is an avid scuba diver and enjoys activities such as snow skiing and hiking, particularly in the north woods of Maine around Moosehead Lake. He is also an avid fan of the UCONN Huskies basketball teams (men's and women's)as well as the Boston Celtics.