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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.

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Courses
  • CEDP
    Chemical Engineering Design Principles

  • CPE
    Chemical and Physical Equilibrium

  • ECEEII
    Elements of Chemical and Environmental Engineering II

  • CEHTFF
    Chemical Engineering Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

  • CEMT
    Chemical Engineering Mass Transfer

  • ECEEI
    Elements of Chemical & Environmental Engineering I

  • ECEEICL
    Elements of Chemical & Environmental Engineering I - Computational Lab

  • CELI
    Chemcial Engineering Lab I

  • IMLE
    Introduction to MatLab and Excel

  • CAS
    Carbon Audits and Sustainability

  • ECEI
    Elements of Chemical Engineering I

  • CRE
    Chemical Reaction Engineering

  • EWE
    Environmental and Water Engineering

  • ECEII
    Elements of Chemical Engineering II

Grants
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    Using Co-Teaching to Expand Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $20.0K
    Active
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    Developing Instructional Teams for Evidence-Based Instruction in Large Collaborative Learning Environments

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $2.8M
    Active
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    Women Persistence in Engineering

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $15.4K
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    Regional-Based Refrigeration Choices to Reduce Global Climate Change

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $756.0
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    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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