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DEGREES Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTitle: Engineering Approximations for Chemical Kinetics, Dr. Richard I. Masel, Advisor.M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1997, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignB.S. Chemical Engineering, 1994, Michigan State University, High Honors, Honors College
HONORS AND AWARDS1) University Distinguished Professor, The University of Arizona, the highest teaching honor given by the University of Arizona for excellence in undergraduate instruction (2012).2) College of Engineering Teaching Fellow, The University of Arizona, named as one of nine faculty for past student engagement and to enhance activities in teaching (2012).3) Carnegie Foundation Arizona Professor of the Year, one of top 27 faculty in the country for educating undergraduate students at PhD granting institutions, 2011.4) Best Presentation, C. Canter (speaker) and P. Blowers, Modeling of Sustainability of Biofuels from Microalgae: Predicted Bottlenecks for Success, Earth Week 2011 Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, The University of Arizona, 3-31 (2011).5) The University of Arizona Honors College Five-Star Faculty Award, this award recognizes the best instructor at the U of A and is a completely student driven process, 2010.6) The UA Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award for Instructional Innovation, 2010.7) College of Engineering daVinci Award Winner for Top FacultyMember in College, recognized for excellence in teaching or research combined with service, 2009-2010.8) Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2009.9) Outstanding Faculty Member, 2009, University of Arizona as selected by the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership who represent the 35,000+ student body.10)National Academic Advising Association, Outstanding Advising Award Winner, Academic Advising Faculty Category, 2008. Selected as one of four best faculty advisors in the United States.11)University of Arizona Excellence in Academic Advising Faculty Advisor Award, top advisor from all departments on campus 2008.12) Best Presentation, P. Blowers, A Toolbox for Integrating Information Literacy into Engineering Courses: Helping Students Help Themselves, ASEE PSW Regional Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, March 27-28 (2008).Award for Excellence at the StudentLast Revised 1-8-13 2Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2008.13)Third Place in 3rd Annual Salsa Festival Fundraiser for Sigma Alpha, Alpha Rho Chapter - supporting females in scholarship and leadership in agriculture, 2008.14)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2007.15)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2006.16)American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Region Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 200617)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2005.18)Outstanding Scientific Presentation, for outstanding scientific content, significance, and originality - X. Zheng, Blowers, The Application of Composite Energy Method to n-Butyl Radical beta-scission Reaction Kinetic Estimations, 10th Electronic Comp.Chem.Conf. April 2005, eccc.monmouth.edu (last accessed 5-12-05).19)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2004.20) The Academy's All Stars Honoree, Main Library Display, 6-25-03 through 7-25-03.21)Certificate of Appreciation, University of Arizona Honors College, 2003.22)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2003.23) The University of Arizona Nominee for the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002.24)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2002.25)Mortar Board Senior Honorary Faculty Tea Honoree, 2002.26)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2001.27)Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Selected by students, 2000.28) Prokasy Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, College award, 1997.29)University of Illinois School of Chemical Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995 & 1996.30)Named to the “Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students List”, University of Illinois, Fall1994, Spring & Fall 1995, Spring & Fall 1996, Spring & Fall 1997.Show Less
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Courses
- CEDPChemical Engineering Design Principles
- CPEChemical and Physical Equilibrium
- ECEEIIElements of Chemical and Environmental Engineering II
- CEHTFFChemical Engineering Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
- CEMTChemical Engineering Mass Transfer
- ECEEIElements of Chemical & Environmental Engineering I
- ECEEICLElements of Chemical & Environmental Engineering I - Computational Lab
- CELIChemcial Engineering Lab I
- IMLEIntroduction to MatLab and Excel
- CASCarbon Audits and Sustainability
- ECEIElements of Chemical Engineering I
- CREChemical Reaction Engineering
- EWEEnvironmental and Water Engineering
- ECEIIElements of Chemical Engineering II
Grants
- Using Co-Teaching to Expand Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in Undergraduate STEM Courses
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$20.0K
Active - Developing Instructional Teams for Evidence-Based Instruction in Large Collaborative Learning Environments
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$2.8M
Active - Women Persistence in Engineering
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$15.4K
- Regional-Based Refrigeration Choices to Reduce Global Climate Change
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$756.0
- National Alliance for Advance Biofuels and Bioproducts - An Algal Biofuels Research Consortium
Co-Investigator (COI)
2010
$2.2M
Technologies / Patents
News
- From Long Jump to Lab, Chemical Engineering Student Makes Great Strides
2020
- 2017 Engineering Grad Wins National Cycling Championship
2017
- Commencement to Honor High Achievers
2017
- Model Student-Faculty Engagement Program Expands
2016
- Some Cool Reading for the Hot Summer
2016
- NSF Division Director Sizes Up UA's STEM Initiatives
2015
- UA's Efforts Address National STEM Demand
2015
- A Different Kind of Space Launch
2014
- Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Build Collaboration, Productivity
2013
- Wildcats Making a Difference
2013
- When Mentors and Students Connect
2012
- UA Professors Honored for Teaching, Mentorship and Outreach
2012
- UA Part of Federal Effort to Develop Advanced Biofuels
2010
- Service and Scholarship Legacy of Achievement Medal Awardees
2010
- Greenhouse Gas Regulations Might Aggravate Climate Change
2010
- Campus Events Commemorate Earth Day
2010
- Awards of Distinction Luncheon Recognizes Excellence in Teaching
2010
- On a Rooftop, Students of Invention
2009
- Graduates Leave Devoted to Research
2008
- UA Chemical Engineer is Putting Hard Numbers on Global Warming
2006
- 6,000 Students + 300 Engineers & Scientists = Noise, Fun & Excitement
2006
- Prop. 301 to Fund Water Research at UA
2003
- In Engineering, How You Learn Can Be as Important as What You Learn
2003
Publications (92)
Recent
- Using an instructional team during pandemic remote teaching enhanced student outcomes in a large STEM course
2022
- A close look at change: the role of community on an instructor's evolution during instructional reform
2021
- Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments: Using an Instructional Team to Promote Formative Assessment and Sense of Community
2021
- A close look at change: the role of an instructional-team community on an Instructor rsquo;s evolution during instructional reform
2021
- Benefits and challenges in the implementation of an Instructional-Teams Model for supporting evidence-based instructional practices in large-enrollment STEM courses
2021
- Affective Drivers that Influence the Implementation of An Instructor’s Teaching Practices in a Large Introductory General Chemistry Course
2020
- Scalable and Practical Teaching Practices Faculty Can Deploy to Increase Retention: A Faculty Cookbook for Increasing Student Success
2020
- Exploring Undergraduate Students' Abilities to Collect and Interpret Formative Assessment Data
2020
- Small Changes, Big Impacts: Teaching Strategies that Work
2019
- Learning Researchers: Promoting Formative Assessment in STEM Courses
2019
- Scalable and Practical Interventions Faculty Can Deploy to Increase Student Success
2019
- Scalable and Practical Teaching Practices Faculty Can Deploy to Increase Retention: A Faculty Cookbook for Increasing Student Success: Part 1
2019
- Effect of collaborative learning on exam performance in a sophomore-level civil engineering statics course
2019
- Student Evaluation of Teaching in an Engineering Class and Comparison of Results Based on Instructor Gender
2018
- Soil carbon sequestration challenges and opportunities in arid ecosystems
2018
- Why Women Persist: Evaluating the Impact of Classroom-based Interventions
2018
- Implications of Widespread Algal Biofuels Production on Macronutrient Fertilizer Supplies: Nutrient Demand and Evaluation of Potential Alternate Sources
2015
- Assessment of theoretical methods for the study of hydrogen abstraction kinetics of global warming gas species during their degradation and byproduct formation (IUPAC technical report)
2013
- Greenhouse gas emissions for refrigerant choices in room air conditioner units
2012
- Sustainability analyses of production scale processes for forming biofuels from algal biomass based on experimental data
2012
- Evaluation of environmental impacts from microalgae cultivation in open-air raceway ponds: Analysis of the prior literature and investigation of wide variance in predicted impacts
2012
- A review of algae-based biofuel production: Sustainability and life cycle assessments
2011
- ChE at... The university of Arizona
2011
- The adsorption of mercury-species on relaxed and rumpled CaO (0 0 1) surfaces investigated by density functional theory
2011
- Carbon dioxide emission implications if hydrofluorocarbons are regulated: A refrigeration case study
2010
- Quantum mechanical modeling for the GeX sub 2 /sub /GeHX + GeH sub 4 /sub reactions (X = H, F, Cl, and Br)
2010
- The adsorption of CO sub 2 /sub on a rumpled CaO (0 0 1) surface and the effect of water vapor investigated by density functional theory
2009
- Estimations of global warming potentials from computational chemistry calculations for CH sub 2 /sub F sub 2 /sub and other fluorinated methyl species verified by comparison to experiment
2009
- Longitudinal contact with individual students as a route of encouraging self-determination in chemical engineers
2009
- Adsorption energies of mercury-containing species on CaO and temperature effects on equilibrium constants predicted by density functional theory calculations
2009
- Global warming potential predictions for hydrofluoroethers with two carbon atoms
2008
- Elemental mercury adsorption study on gehlenite (Ca sub 2 /sub Al sub 2 /sub SiO sub 7 /sub )
2008
- The adsorption of mercury-species on fixed and rumpled calcium oxide (0 0 1) surfaces investigated by density functional theory
2008
- Global warming potentials of hydrofluoroethers
2008
- Application of multimodal software tools to teach problem solving skills
2008
- Environmental foresight through computational chemistry: Improved radiative forcing predictions for global warming potentials
2008
- Environmental foresight through computational chemistry: Hydrofluoroethers and potential impacts
2008
- A mercury adsorption study on fixed and relaxed CaO surfaces using density functional methods
2007
- Prediction of radiative forcing values for hydrofluoroethers using density functional theory methods
2007
- The application of composite energy methods to n-butyl radical β-scission reaction kinetic estimations
2007
- Estimation of gas-phase heat capacities for hydrofluoroethers with two carbon atoms
2007
- Kinetic modeling of the propyl radical β-scission reaction: An application of composite energy methods
2006
- Prediction of global warming potentials through computational chemistry - Testing robustness of methodology through experimental comparisons
2006
- First-principle kinetic modeling of the 1-chloroethyl unimolecular decomposition reaction
2006
- A computational study of methane catalytic reactions on zeolites
2006
- Environmental applications of computational chemistry
2006
- Reactivity of isobutane on zeolites: a first principles study
2006
- Kinetic modeling of tert-butyl radical decomposition reaction
2006
- Use of Ab initio calculations to estimate global warming potentials for Hbrfc's: Atmospheric lifetimes and radiative forcing results
2005
- Reactivity of alkanes on zeolites: A computational study of propane conversion reactions
2005
- Effective integration of coursework: Equilibrium thermodynamics as a bridge from material and energy balances and mass transfer to design
2005
- An ab initio investigation of hydrocarbon radical β-scission reaction kinetics
2005
- The investigation of hydrocarbon cracking reaction energetics with composite energy methods
2005
- A DFT study of mercury capture on paper waste derived sorbents
2005
- Application of compound models for estimating rate constants of hydrocarbon thermal cracking reactions: The neopentyl radical β-scission reaction
2005
- An ab initio study of ethane conversion reactions on zeolites using the complete basis set composite energy method
2005
- An investigation of light alkane conversion reactions on zeolites with a cluster approach
2005
- A computational study of alkane hydrogen-exchange reactions on zeolites
2005
- An Ab initio investigation of mercury oxidation in combustion flue gases
2005
- Evaluation of basis sets and theoretical methods for estimating rate constants of mercury oxidation reactions involving chlorine
2004
- Decomposition of mercuric chloride and application to combustion flue gases
2004
- Atom economy, expanding boundaries to incorporate upstream reactions
2004
- Quantum chemical prediction of hydrocarbon cracking reactions
2004
- Some comments on 'A study on the reaction mechanism and kinetic of mercury oxidation by chlorine species' [J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 625 (2003) 277]
2004
- Use of life-cycle inventory as a screening tool for environmental performance: Supercritical carbon dioxide in the semiconductor industry
2004
- Deconstruction of an engineering syllabus for information literacy
2003
- Assessment of the suitability of using the composite G2, G3, and CBS-RAD methods for predicting activation energies
2003
- A quantitative investigation into whether the publication of engineering pedagogical material is an indicator of value in 'Rankings' when assessing instruction
2003
- Theoretically predicted rate constants for mercury oxidation by hydrogen chloride in coal combustion flue gases
2003
- Breaking the curve - Why a straight-scale is appropriate in engineering courses
2002
- Course syllabus construction: A stitch in time saves nine
2002
- A course on freshman survival skills
2002
- Use of interactive web-based examples in engineering courses
2002
- Engineering approximations for activation energies in hydrogen transfer reactions
2000
- Extensions of the Marcus equation for the prediction of approximate transition state geometries in hydrogen transfer and methyl transfer reactions
2000
- Calculated Vibrational Spectra for CH sub n /sub OH sub m /sub Species
2000
- Formation of hydronium and water-hydronium complexes during coadsorption of hydrogen and water on (2x1) Pt (110)
1999
- Uv/HREELS measurements of the excited states of adsorbed CO: Benchmarks for ab initio calculations
1999
- Use of Buckingham potentials in engineering approximations for chemical kinetics
1999
- Role of steps and kinks in catalytic activity
1999
- An Extension of the Marcus Equation for Atom Transfer Reactions
1999
- FORMATION OF HYDRONIUM AND METHOXONIUM ON PT(110) : AB INITIO DETERMINATION OF SPECTROSCOPICALLY OBSERVED SPECIES
1999
- Ultraviolet/high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy of CO on Pt(110) and benzene on Pt(110)
1999
- Formation of hydronium and methoxonium on Pt(110): Ab initio determination of spectroscopically observed species
1999
- Conservation of bond order during hydrogenolysis and dehydrogenation reactions
1998
- AB INITIO CALCULATIONS OF THE REACTIONS OF HYDROGEN WITH METHANOL : A COMPARISON OF THE ROLE OF BOND DISTORTIONS AND PAULI REPULSIONS ON THE INTRINSIC BARRIERS FOR CHEMICAL REACTIONS
1998
- Conservation of bond order during radical substitution reactions: Implications for the BEBO model
1998
- The role of step atom density on the binding and reaction of surface species
1998
- Evidence for carbocation formation during the coadsorption of methanol and hydrogen on Pt(110)
1998
- Why do heats of adsorption of simple gases on platinum surfaces vary so little with surface structure?
1998
- Ab initio calculations of the reactions of hydrogen with methanol: A comparison of the role of bond distortions and pauli repulsions on the intrinsic barriers for chemical reactions
1998
- Liquid-liquid equilibria of selected dibasic ester + water + solvent ternary systems
1996
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