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David L. Silverstein, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Current Activities:

Evaluating the potential economic impact of recovering volumetrically contaminated nickel.

Teaching the role of common industrial safety practices in chemical plant security.

Teaching the role and reason for government regulation of the chemical industry with respect to chemical plant security.

Optimized stochastic modeling of fluid location in unsaturated porous media systems using a distributed computing network.

Template-Based Programming-- an instructional technique for programming assignments that allows students to focus on engineering problems and not computer science.

Outreach through game shows: Who Wants to be an Engineer?

A pedagogy driven approach to an evolutionary redesign of distance-learning classrooms in Kentucky.  "An Improved Distance Learning Environment for the Material and Energy Balances Course", Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Meeting, 2002.

Extending the pre-engineering  and sophomore engineering curricula across Kentucky community colleges and four-year colleges and universities by distance offerings.

Applying Learning Styles to the design of Interactive Adaptive Multimedia Software.

Integrating Sound Pedagogy and Instructional Methods into Next Generation ITV for Distance Learning.

Interfacial modification of environmentally malignant systems for enhanced remediation and recovery.

Interdisciplinary instruction in process control for engineers and technicians at multiple institutions.

Improving retention of mathematics through course-external emphasis of application.

Process Simulators can be fun: explaining chemical engineering to K-12 by making ice cream.

Courses Taught:

CME 006 The Engineering Profession CME 425 Heat and Mass Transfer 
CME 101 Introduction to Chemical Engineering CME 432 Chemical Engineering Lab I 
CME 199 Computational Methods in ChE (was EGR199) CME 455 Process Design I
CME 200 Process Principles CME 456 Process Design II
CME 320 Thermodynamics CME 462 Process Control
CME 415 Separations CME 470 Safety, Ethics, and Professionalism
CME 420 Process Modeling CME 550 Reactor Design
  CME 599 Interfacial Engineering

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