Staff Duties

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