Dr. Christi Luks, a teaching professor and associate chair of the Linda and Bipin Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor. 
 
The University of Missouri Board of Curators awards this title to honor outstanding professors, call attention to teaching excellence and foster improvements in teaching and learning. 
 
Luks, who is the 2025-26 president of the American Society for Engineering Education, joined Missouri S&T in 2014 as an associate teaching professor and was promoted to teaching professor in 2019.  
 
Before coming to S&T, she served more than two decades on the faculty of the University of Tulsa. 
 
Luks holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Tulsa and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University.  
 
She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and president of Omega Chi Epsilon, the national honor society for chemical engineering. 
 
For more information about Missouri S&T’s chemical and biochemical engineering programs, visit chbe.mst.edu.   

About Missouri S&T

Missouri University of Science and Technology is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,000 students located in Rolla, Missouri. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T offers over 100 degrees in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top public universities for salary impact, according to The Wall Street Journal. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.