Larry Biegler has been selected to receive the 2015 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature. The award is presented to a member of AIChE who has made an outstanding contribution to chemical engineering literature. The award will be presented at the Institute’s Honors Ceremony, held during AIChE’s 2015 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. In CCSI, Larry has contributed to the development of the framework for the optimization of oxycombustion systems, a dynamic reduced order model of bubbling fluidized beds, and the the Dynamic Reduced Model (D-RM) Builder Tool as well as a trust region methodology for incorporating high fidelity models within an optimization framework.