Francis S. Manning *59

At the age of 90, Frank died May 9, 2024, in Tulsa, Okla. 

He was born Sept. 16, 1933, in Barbados. He earned a B.Eng. in chemical engineering at McGill and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Princeton in 1959. 

Frank taught engineering at the University of Tulsa for 59 years before retiring in 2018 at age 85. Prior to joining the Tulsa faculty in 1968, he taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). 

Frank taught nearly every undergraduate chemical engineering course offered at Tulsa, six graduate ChemE courses, five engineering core courses, and three petroleum refining and production courses. He was the A. Paul Buthod Professor of Chemical Engineering from 2013 until his retirement and authored 70 publications and three textbooks. 

He taught numerous industrial short courses on oil field processing of petroleum in the United States and in England, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Trinidad, and Venezuela. 

Frank was named Mr. Homecoming at Tulsa in 2016 and was inducted into TU’s College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Hall of Fame in 2022. 

Predeceased by his wife Ardis, Frank is survived by his children, Frank and Helen, and three grandchildren.

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