Channing Robertson is the Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor, Emeritus, in the Stanford University School of Engineering, the Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Emeritus, and a former faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he taught and conducted research in biotechnology from 1970 until his retirement in 2013. He served as department chair for eight years and as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs in the School of Engineering for six years. Channing currently teaches a freshman seminar on energy transformations.