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Sharon Anderson

  • Point of contact for inquiries from undergraduate students
  • Coordinator of Honors Day
  • ABET retention and coordination
  • Assign and maintain faculty advisor information
  • Department representative at UD recruiting events
  • Create and maintain department in-house undergraduate student e-mail
  • Coordinator of undergraduate exit interviews
  • Liaison for students with university community
  • Undergraduate Summer research liaison
  • Coordinate secondary school visits
  • Responsible for end of term letters
  • Back-up student advisor

Ruth Ann Batten

  • Graduate Admissions Coordinator
  • Administrative support for the Director of Graduate Admissions
  • Administrative support for Drs. Antoniewicz, Beris, Dhurjati, Epps, Lee, Ogunnaike, Roberts, Robinson, Shine and Sullivan.
  • Graduate Fair arrangements
  • Winter Research Review arrangements (4th year talks)
  • Summer Research Review arrangements (2nd year talks)
  • Resume Book coordination and production
  • Senior and Junior Labs

Sheila Boulden

  • Design of public relations materials for CCST and CMET
  • Design and maintenance of CMET and CCST center web pages
  • Administrative support for CMET faculty: Drs. Furst, Lenhoff, Sandler and Wagner
  • Administrative support for CCST faculty: Drs. Barteau, Buttrey, Chen, Lauterbach, Lobo, Vlachos, and Willis
  • Administrative support for Dr. Wool
  • Coordination of special events and seminars for CMET and CCST
  • Coordination of CCST annual research review
  • Annual report coordination and production for CMET and CCST

Terri Brower

  • Administrative Assistant (HR Liaison)
  • Personnel and pay functions for the department
  • Coordinate all new appointments
  • Graduate program (in house)
  • Bi-weekly pay
  • Distribution of pay checks
  • Vacation and sick time log
  • Staff and Faculty Group email list maintenance

Cathy Cathell

  • Account maintenance: reconciliation, close-out and report preparation for department and faculty accounts
  • Preparation and processing of personnel funding changes on grants for all faculty
  • Reconcile clearing accounts
  • Chargeback to accounts for copier charges
  • Effort reporting
  • Manage the business office

Leila Choe

  • Laboratory Director for Dr. Lee

Kim Correll-Comeau

  • Purchasing - prepare, monitor all purchasing activity of the department and assist with purchasing problems
  • Purchasing card administrator
  • Key database and work orders for keys
  • Disburse petty cash
  • Plant property records duty
  • Coffee club and coffee supplies

Lisa Dougherty

  • Departmental seminars
  • Telephone service contact
  • Order and maintain inventory of office supplies
  • Assign new mailboxes and maintain mailbox list
  • Express outgoing mail and chargebacks to accounts
  • Fax distribution
  • Receive all gases and packages
  • Campus deliveries coordination
  • Bulletin board postings and removal of outdated material
  • Serves as general support to all staff

Becky George

  • 50% Grant Administrator; financial management/reporting
  • Account Administrator for research accounts for Professors Antoniewicz, Beris, Lee, Ogunnaike, Roberts, Robinson, Shine, and Sullivan

Patti Hall

  • Dr. Wagner, Chairman
  • Alumni Newsletter and Research Report coordination
  • Faculty recruitment, Promotion and tenure
  • Coordinate special departmental projects and events
  • Coordinate faculty awards
  • Account administration assistance for the Assistant to the Chair
  • Account administrator for Dr. Russell
  • Coordinate REU program payments and housing
  • Administrative support for the Contributions program (donor mailings and database management)
  • Professors Olson, Russell, and Schultz
  • Archives liaison
  • Course scheduling
  • Grade and class roster coordinator
  • Thesis/dissertation circulation
  • UDSIS interactions (scheduling, class roster, transcripts)

Debbie Hendel

  • Administrative Coordinator for the IGERT and CMET programs; financial management/reporting
  • Account Administrator on research accounts for Professors COBRE, Dhurjati, Furst, Lenhoff, Sandler, and Wagner
  • Grant Proposal for selected faculty

Lisa Henrickson

  • Administrative Coordinator for CCST; financial management/reporting
  • Account Administrator for CCST accounts and research accounts for Professors Barteau, Buttrey, Chen, Epps, Lauterbach, Lobo, Vlachos, and Wool
  • Grant Proposal for selected faculty

Lorraine Holton

  • Assistant to the AIChE Journal Editor - Dr. Sandler

Dinesh Indurthi

  • Laboratory Coordinator for Dr. Papoutsakis
  • Account maintenance: reconciliation, close-out and report preparation for department and faculty accounts
  • Preparation and processing of personnel funding changes on grants for all faculty
  • Reconcile clearing accounts
  • Chargeback to accounts for copier charges
  • Effort reporting
  • Manage the business office

Vacant

  • Staff assistant for both UDEI (University of Delaware Energy Institute) and for Kelvin Lee.

Danielle Nolen

  • Coordinator for Dr. Papoutsakis and his research team
  • Administrative administrator for Dr. Papoutsakis

Carrie Qualls

  • Design, print and implement Departmental public relations materials and displays
  • Technical assistance for faculty and support staff
  • Creation and revision of Websites
  • Software evaluations, upgrades, education, and trouble-shooting
  • Database development/maintenance
  • Database file server support/maintenance
  • Photo database and photo board production

Maria Taylor

  • Staff supervision and Department budget
  • Assist Chair in implementation of teaching functions, faculty work load, course work and classroom schedules

Gary Wellmaker

  • Build, repair and order electronics for undergraduate lab and research laboratories
  • Advise faculty and students on electrical and electronic aspects of setting up their equipment
  • Basic computer support/computer hardware consultation
  • Supervise Dell computer lab operation

George Whitmyre

  • Laboratory/building safety management
  • Safety training
  • Undergraduate lab coordination
  • Supervise electronics shop
  • Department equipment inventory
  • Space inventory
  • Laboratory utility and equipment fit-outs
  • Work order requests for building

Lucille Wilson

  • Provides general assistance to the Business Office
  • Serves as general support to all staff
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