Robert E. Sloat

After graduation, Bob joined Universal Oil Products Company, working in refinery process development and later in its patent law group while earning a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

In 1975, Bob joined Amoco Corporation’s Law group as an intellectual property attorney working with the chemical, refining, and upstream production research and business groups. Over the years at Amoco, Bob was also involved in international technology licensing in the chemical, refining, and crude oil production areas assuming the role of licensing attorney and later a business role as a licensing manager. Following that activity, in 2003 Bob retired from BP Amoco after 28 years of service.

After retirement and until 2008, Bob was an adjunct law professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago teaching intellectual property licensing in the school’s Masters Program. While at Michigan Tech Bob, was one of the founders of the Eta chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Bob’s activities with Michigan Tech since graduation include membership in Tech’s President’s Club. Bob has been a guest lecturer in the chemical engineering department on topics
including intellectual property principles for chemical engineers. Bob is also the co-chair of the 60th alumni reunion in August 2025.

In 2013 he was inducted into the chemical engineering department’s Distinguished Academy of Chemical Engineering.

Bob worked with Michigan Tech’s chemical engineering department to establish a faculty fellowship to establish a “Professor of Promise Chair” to help attract and support junior
professors in the chemical engineering dpartment. In 2023, the Professor of Promise Chair fellowship was merged into the Anton Pintar fellowship which has the same goals.

To Bob, Michigan Tech is still a special place. NCAA Husky hockey championships in 1962 and 1965 while a student were a plus. Dee stadium in those days was special and literally cool.
Bob is a retired Lake Michigan sailor and past Commander of the Waukegan Sail and Power Squadron, which is active in boater education and marine safety programs. And Bob is an
Eagle Scout.

Bob and his wife, Wallis, live in Vernon Hills, Illinois and have two daughters with families in the area.

Updated July 16, 2025