Professor Maria Hepel

DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, POTSDAM N.Y. CHEMISTRY
Site map Home Professional activity Education Teaching Nanoscience in Curriculum University Service Research Research with Students Students List Learning through research Publications Presentations International Connection Atomic Force Microscopy Lab AFM operation Tip interactions Lectures to other Departments Nanotechnology Lab Quartz Crystal Nanobalance Lab EQCN Principles EQCN Setup Studies Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance (EQCN) technique utilizes quartz vibrations and piezoelectric effect to measure mass changes as small as a fraction of a monolayer of atoms Back to CHEMISTRY Dept.		Professor Maria Hepel hepelmr@potsdam.edu Teaching		Department of Chemistry Stowell Hall 44 Pierrepont Ave. Potsdam , NY 13676, U.S.A. Tel.: +1.315.267.2267 Fax: +1.315.267.3170
		RECENT COURSES CHEM-415 Instrumental Analysis Lecture CHEM-415 Instrumental Analysis Lab CHEM-311 Quantitative Analysis Lecture CHEM-311 Quantitative Analysis Lab CHEM-315 Forensic Science (Lecture) CHEM-480 Advanced Analytical Chemistry CHEM-497 Research Problems CHEM-308/309 Chemistry Seminars CHEM-495 Special Topics TEACHING EXPERIENCE 25 years of teaching experience. Courses taught: 1) Quantitative Chemical Analysis (lectures, labs, and recitation) 2) Instrumental Analysis (lectures and labs) 3) Electrochemistry (lectures) 4) Physical Chemistry (labs and recitations) 5) General Chemistry (labs and recitations) 6) Electrochemistry of Semiconductors (lectures) 7) Analysis in Biology and Medicine (lectures) 8) Clinical Analysis (lectures) 9) Analytical Techniques in Human Toxicology (lectures) 10) Electroanalytical Techniques in Clinical Chemistry (lectures) 11) Undergraduate Research 12) Forensic Science (lectures) 13) Advanced Analytical "Modern Electroanalytical Techniques" (lectures) TEACHING CONFERENCES Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 21^st Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Effective Engagement Techniques", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 3, 2012, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 20^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Developing Critical Thinking", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 12, 2011, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 19^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Effective Teaching", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 6, 2010, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 18^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Teaching Digital Natives", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 7, 2009, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 17^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Preparing Our Students for the World Through a Globalized Curriculum", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 1, 2008, SUUNY Canton, Canton NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 16^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Excellence in Teaching& Course Design for Significant Learning", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 3, 2007, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 15^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Why is Academic Freedom Controversial", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, November 4, 2006, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. Dr. Hepel was involved in planning and organizing the 14^th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference "Undergraduate Research: Models, Funding and Pedagogy", sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, October 29, 2005, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Three chemistry students: Indee Dela Kumarihamy, Florence Shu and John Bennett working under Dr. Hepel supervision contributed poster presentations to this conference. Dr. Hepel participates in the National Science Foundation sponsored program for innovating of undergraduate curriculum through incorporation of the state-of-the-art instrumentation. She presented a paper at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007, at the symposium *NSF Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum* organized by NSF, on "*Applications of AFM in imaging of nanowires and nanostructured semiconductor electrocatalysts,” One result of this work is Dr. Hepel's published a paper in the Journal of Chemical Education* 85 (2008) 125, on innovative teaching in upper division analytical chemistry and physical chemistry courses		*Nanoporous TiO₂* for solar energy conversion and direct methanol fuel cells Degradation of dye pollutants Electron density surface with map of highest Occupied Molecular Orbitals (HOMO) for dye pollutant Remazol Blue Black. Decomposition of pollutants studied by photo-electrocatalytic method using TiO₂, WO₃, and MoO₃ semiconductor electrodes *Quantum Conductance Monatomic Nanobridge Devices* studied using conductanc spectroscopy and AFM/STM
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