Young Faculty Forum Panel - Speaker 4

Dr. Allen Hersel is an Assistant Professor in the chemical engineering department at Tri-State University. Dr. Hersel received his BS in chemical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has 10 years experience working as a process engineer for Koch Industries and Kellogg Brown & Root. He then went back to school and received his MS and PhD in chemical engineering from Yale University in the area of bioseparations.

Tri-State University is located in the northeast corner of Indiana. (Due east of Norte Dame appox. 80 miles) Tri-State University is a small private university with an enrollment of 1200 students with about half seeking and undergraduate engineering degree. Currently there are no graduate programs in engineering so all teaching in engineering is at the undergraduate level.

Dr. Hersel will briefly comment on teaching new courses and maintaining undergraduate standards.