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;
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