Teaching Experience
Prof. A.D. Lueking

(1) EGEE 101, Energy & the Environment, is a general education course that I have taught in Fall 2004 and am preparing to teach again in Fall 2005. The class introduces a diverse cross section of Penn State students (ranging from first year students to seniors, art majors to engineers) to timely concerns relevant to diminishing energy supplies and the interplay with environmental concerns such as global warming. For many of the students, this is the only science class they will take while at Penn State. Last year, I required the students to develop a web site conveying an energy-related topic to junior high students as their term project. In collaboration with a NSF K-12 educational initiative, the 101 students’ web sites were viewed by the intended K-12 audience.

(2) For EGEE 410 Fuel Cells, co-taught in Spring 2005, I expanded the course content to include ~50% material relevant to hydrogen technology, production, socio-economic issues, and scientific accuracy and ethics.

(3) I have taught GeoEE 480, Senior Process Design, in Spring 2004 and 2005. This past year, I led the design groups to examine remediation schemes for a local environmental contamination problem brought about when highway construction cut into acid rock at the nearby Skytop Mountain.

(4) I am collaboratively teaching EGEE 510 Engineering Chemistry, one of the core classes for the new EGEE graduate degree at Penn State. The class introduces the interdisciplinary incoming graduate students to how basics of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics apply to the research problems they will face as part of their energy-associated research problems.

(5) Prior to my arrival at PSU, I had experience as an Instructor in Mathematics at Washtenaw Community College, and a Teaching Consultant for Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. I was co-instructor for an advanced program and class in Environmental Sustainability, for which we presented our educational methods at several conferences and were recognized with a feature article in Chemical & Engineering News.