Episodes

  • ITFH LIVE at ChESS: Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, Tracy Gardner, Dami Daramola and Micha Barankin

    ITFH LIVE at ChESS: Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, Tracy Gardner, Dami Daramola and Micha Barankin
    Nov 11 2022
    ITFH is LIVE again! Our host Matt Cooper chats with Sindia Rivera-Jiménez (University of Florida), Tracy Gardner (Colorado School of Mines), Dami Daramola (Ohio University) and Micha Barankin (Colorado School of Mines) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their wide-ranging discussion of this year's Summer School touches on the beautiful venue, favorite workshops from the week, pushing personal boundaries while whitewater rafting and biking, and testimonials on why faculty should attend the ChE Summer School summer school. Spoken-word poetry intro by Courtney Pfluger (Northeastern University)!
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    29 mins
  • ITFH LIVE at ChE Summer School: Dan Anastasio, Dan Burkey and Sandy Petit

    ITFH LIVE at ChE Summer School: Dan Anastasio, Dan Burkey and Sandy Petit
    Oct 28 2022
    ITFH goes LIVE as host Matt Cooper chats with Dan Anastasio (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dan Burkey (University of Connecticut) and Sandy Petit (University of South Florida) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their discussion of ChE Summer Schools of the past ends up going in many directions, including favorite workshops, a quest for clothes hangers, an early memory of Milo Koretsky, and go-to karaoke jams. Bonus appearance by hype person Lucas Landherr (Northeastern University)!
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    29 mins
  • ITFH 29: Courtney Pfluger Raps About Innovation

    ITFH 29: Courtney Pfluger Raps About Innovation
    Jul 19 2022
    Courtney Pfluger, Associate Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, is ITFH host Matt Cooper's guest in this entertaining episode of the show! They discuss Courtney's innovative research in inclusive teams, clean water, and renewable energy education in Brazil. Matt is delighted to learn of Courtney's unique favorite band, and even more delighted when he and Courtney rap to Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy" together!
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • ITFH 28: Taryn Bayles Reaches Out

    ITFH 28: Taryn Bayles Reaches Out
    Jun 22 2022
    Taryn Bayles, Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, joins podcast host Matt Cooper in the fume hood. In this episode Matt and Taryn theorize what makes our ChE education community so great, discuss Taryn's successes in student outreach and design projects, and Taryn shares incredible stories of her ballet career.
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    52 mins
  • ITFH 27: Daniel Lepek Provides a Multi-Course Menu

    ITFH 27: Daniel Lepek Provides a Multi-Course Menu
    May 17 2022
    In this episode ITFH host Matt Cooper catches up with Daniel Lepek (Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Cooper Union) about his goals as current Chair of the AIChE Education Division, share pet peeves as ABET PEVs, and talk about what wine pairs best with fried bologna. We are also fortunate to hear Daniel - a trained classical pianist - play a bit of the song "Paris" as part of this interview.
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    47 mins
  • ITFH 26: Matt Liberatore Reverse Engineers Engineering Education

    ITFH 26: Matt Liberatore Reverse Engineers Engineering Education
    Mar 22 2022
    Double the Matt! Matt Liberatore, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo, joins ITFH host Matt Cooper for a wide-ranging conversation about Matt L's work on interactive textbooks and YouTube problems, his service as Chair of the AIChE Education division and... harp music!
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • ITFH 25: Sarah Wilson Prioritizes Student Mental Health

    ITFH 25: Sarah Wilson Prioritizes Student Mental Health
    Feb 15 2022
    This time Matt's ChE talk show guest is Sarah Wilson, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. They discuss Sarah's current NSF research project on the mental health of engineering students, her collaborative work in safety education, as well as her new course on bourbon production.
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    47 mins
  • ITFH 24: Elif Miskioğlu Thinks Fast

    ITFH 24: Elif Miskioğlu Thinks Fast
    Jul 13 2021
    In this edition of ITFH our host Matt Cooper speaks with Elif Miskioğlu, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, about System 1 and System 2 thinking, Elif's experiences being named one of AIChE's 35 Under 35, and - if you can believe it - singing to puppies.
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    1 hr and 10 mins