As a member of the faculty, Brent W. Webb has contributed an enormous amount to his field and to the university. His research focuses on heat transfer and thermodynamics. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications, edited for two technical journals, lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, and served on several prominent scientific committees. Having directed over $5 million in research, he has developed software for modeling complex heat transfer issues in glass that is now used in American and Japanese industrial production. Likewise, his work on new modeling approaches for predicting heat transfer in high temperature gases has been adopted worldwide.