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Professor Schedule for 2009

Professor Chimowitz - Jan. 15
B. Ebenhack: Jan 20 - Jan 29
Prof. Yates: Feb 3- 17
Prof. Anthamatten: Feb 19 - Mar 3
Prof. Jorne: Mar 5, Mar 17-24

Prof. Tang: Mar 26 - Apr 7
Prof. Chimowitz: Apr 9 - Apr 28


T/A List - 2009
Dan Fink
Howie Kanter
Sam Ruiz

 


Ben Ebenhack's
Lectures and Assignments

Recommended reading -
"Energy at the Crossroads" by Vaclav Smil

Preserving and Extending the Energy Advantage - SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program


Whom to Believe
Running Out of Oil
Grading Notes
Ben's JPT article
Clarifying the Limits


Professor Yates'
Lectures and Assignments
02/03/09 - Guest lecture given by Carmala Garzione
02/05/09 - Lecture
02/10/09 - No Lecture
02/12/09 - Lecture
02/17/09 - Lecture

HW Assignment due 03/03/09


Professor Anthamatten's
Lectures and Assignment

Problem 2 Solutions


Professor Jorne's
Lectures and Assignment

Fuel Cell Assignment

Further comments for the Fuel Cell Assignment:
The purpose of the fuel cell assignment is to try to design a fuel cell system and to see if it is suitable for electric car. The report should present the assumptions, conditions and calculations.
If you find out that the system is too heavy, or too big, or is not sufficient, you can recommend what needs to be done as far as research and development. For example: improving the conductivity of the membrane, making the fuel cell thinner, improving the catalysis of the oxygen reaction, the size of the membrane, etc. You can estimate also what kind of voltage-current curve might be good enough for the design at hand.
Please contact me if you have further questions at jorne@che.rochester.edu.



Professor Tang's
Lectures and Assignment

-Lecture 1

~Assignments 1 and 2
~SOLUTIONS

-Lecture 2

-Lecture 3


Professor Chimowitz's
Lectures and Assignment

Hands-on Start to Mathematica - Understand it in 20 minutes!

View "Hands-on Start to Mathematica--Part 2" here:

Just in case you haven't seen Part 1, you can watch the original
"Hands-on Start to Mathematica" here:

Tutorial #1 Basics, function definitions

Tutorial #2 Plotting Basics

Tutorial #3 Non-linear equations and DEs

-Mathematica In-Class Assignment
~SOLUTIONS

-Consecutive Reaction In-Class Assignment

PRACTICE EXAM 2009

Practice Exam Solutions

Final Exam Schedule


 



 


 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Prof. Eldred H. Chimowitz
email: chim@che.rochester.edu
Research Areas of Interest:
Critical Phenomena, Statistical Mechanics of Fluids and Computer-Aided Design

Prof. Jacob Jorne'
email: jorne@che.rochester.edu
Research Areas of Interest
Electrochemical Engineering: Fuel cells.
Microelectronics Processing: Copper interconnect, electrodeposition. Theoretical Biology: Diffusion in ecosystems.

Prof. Ching Tang
email: chtang@che.rochester.edu
Research Areas of Interest
Applications of organic electronic devices – organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, photoconductors, image sensors, photoreceptors. Basic studies of organic thin-film devices: charge injection, transport, recombination and luminescence properties. Metal-organic and organic-organic junction phenomena. Development of flat-panel display technology based on organic light emitting diodes.

Assoc. Prof. Matthew Z. Yates
email: myates@che.rochester.edu
Research Areas of Interest:
Colloids and Interfaces, Materials Synthesis in Microemulsions, Nanoparticle/Polymer Composites, Supercritical Fluids, Microencapsulation

Asst. Prof. Mitchell Anthamatten
email: anthamatten@che.rochsster.edu
Reseach Areas of Interst:
Macromolecular self-assembly; associative & functional polymers;
nanostructured materials; interfacial phenomena; optoelectronic materials;
vapor deposition polymerization

Ben Ebenhack, Sr. Lector
email: bwe@che.rochester.edu
Research Areas fo Interest:
Energy Resources, with respect to Development and the Environment; Energy Alternative Applications; Resource Evaluation