Scott Wasserman is R&D Technology Leader/Intellectual Capital Manager in Dow’s Packaging & Specialty Plastics segment, a responsibility that includes the Wire & Cable and Dow Energy businesses as well as Dow’s corporation-wide digital innovation. In May 2024, he celebrated 30 years with Dow (via Union Carbide). Scott has functional responsibility for intellectual assets, including patents, agreements and licensing opportunities, and additional experience with numerous complex divestiture and licensing projects.
Concurrently, he has served for 15+ years as Adjunct Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at his alma mater, the University of Delaware, teaching Rheology & Viscoelasticity and Plastics Sustainability in a course on Polymer Science. Scott earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree with Distinction from the University of Delaware in 1988.
He has been active with the International Wire & Cable Symposium organization for many years, serving since 2018 as Chair of its Board of Directors (BoD). Scott’s first presentation at IWCS was in 2001, and he first joined the Symposium Committee and the BoD in 2003 and 2010, respectively. Scott also serves as Chair of the Scientific Advisor Board for EFRC Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI) and on the External Advisory Board for MRSEC Center for the Center for Hybrid Active Response Materials (CHARM), both housed at the University of Delaware.
