Stephen P. (Steve) Beaudoin is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, where he also serves as the Director of the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC).  As Director of PERC, he shepherds and promotes more than $80M in current energetic materials research led by 18 Engineering, Science, or Purdue Polytechnic Institute faculty working in 8 buildings campus-wide, including the Zucrow and Herrick Labs research complexes.

Prior to beginning his career at Purdue, Beaudoin was professor in Chemical Engineering in the Chemical, Bio, & Materials Engineering Department at Arizona State University. There, he taught and performed research on particle adhesion to surfaces in systems relevant to microelectronics manufacturing and the detection of explosive trace residues in air transportation environments. His research was recognized with a National Science Foundation Early Career Faculty award, and he was also recognized for the quality of his teaching. Since moving to Purdue in 2003, Beaudoin has narrowed his focus to primarily adhesion in energetic materials systems. He was a member of the team that formed the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) in 2017 and has served as its Director ever since.  In addition to his work with PERC, he serves as Academic Director of the Dual MS in Defense Engineering and Technology degree program, which is jointly offered by Purdue and Cranfield University (UK). Beaudoin has won numerous teaching, mentoring, and research awards from Purdue.

Beaudoin is known worldwide for his work on powder and particle adhesion, and has published more than 100 manuscripts in the refereed literature and made more than 200 technical presentations in this area. His work has led to new approaches for handling powders, particles, and highly viscous, high solids-content liquids in industrial settings, including during the processing and manufacturing of energetics.

Beaudoin earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1988, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1995.