Teaching and Service Work
TEACHING:
Dr. Sepaniak, former secondary education teaching, has contributed to the UT Chemistry curriculum teaching at all levels from General Chemistry through upper division undergraduate courses in Analytical Chemistry and into the Graduate level core sequences. In general he has received teaching reviews at or above the departmental average. He has also developed graduate selective topics course (Chemistry 610) in his wide ranging areas of research expertise. Professor Sepaniak’s most significant teaching is the experiential training (Chemistry 400, 500, & 600, 601) of undergraduate and graduate students. He has maintained a research group comprised of 10 or more graduate and undergraduate students for more than two decades and placed numerous students in responsible positions in academics, industry, and government laboratories.
SERVICE WORK:
In addition to his position as
Department Head in Chemistry (see various Board of Visitors PP presentations
for accomplishments), Professor Sepaniak has provided service to the university
through committee work at the departmental, college, and university
levels. These committees include the
following: Departmental – Advisory Committee, Seminar, Recruiting,
Advisory, Graduate Student Advisory, T.A. Selection, Industrial Support
(including UTK-Tennessee Eastman and UTK-Hoechst Celanese Partnerships work), Instrument
Needs, Various Faculty Searches and Summer Research Programs; College -
LA Advising Center, Faculty incentive Awards, Biology Consortium Review Team,
Physics Program Review Team and Chair of Physics Head Search, Chair A&S
Heads Budget Committee; University - Faculty Development Awards, Physics
Department Review Team, Science Alliance Evaluator, Arts and Science Dean
Search (3-times), UT Research Corporation Board of Directors, Tennessee
Advanced Materials Laboratory Executive Committee.