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Harvey F. Blanck

EDUCATION:

  • Ohio State University, 1967, Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)
  • Miami University (Ohio), 1954, B.A. (Chemistry)

CHEMISTRY WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • 1994-present, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Austin Peay State U.,TN
  • 1997-2000, Research Chemist, APSU
  • 1995-1996, Chemistry consultant, UCAR Carbon Co., Clarksville,TN
  • 1994-1997, Chemist, McLeod's Industrial Cleaners, Clarksville, TN
  • 1994-1997, Instrument Lab Manager, APSU
  • 1971-1994, Professor of Chemistry, APSU,
  • 1967-1971, Associate Professor of Chemistry, APSU,
  • 1964-1967, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, APSU,

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES:

PUBLICATIONS:

  • publication
    "    Plastic Models Designed to Produce Large Height to Length Ratio Steady State Planar and Axisymmetric (Radial) Viscous Liquid Laminar Flow Gravity Currents",  J. Chemical Education, 2012, 89 (2), pp 234–238.
    ACS (American Chemical Society) link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed2001522 
  • publication
    "    Using Spreadsheets to Emulate Diffusion and Thermal Conductivity", Journal of Chemical Education (JCE), 86 (651), 2009.  This was originally a JCE WebWare publication. The hardcopy journal issue only contains an abbreviated article. The online WebWare portion contained the major portion of the material including the unabbreviated article.  All of these WebWare files have now been migrated by JCE and ACS from the old JCE website to the new JCE webpages on its ACS website.   All the WebWare files are now available to everyone (open access) at the ACS link below by clicking on 'Supporting Info' which brings up a list of files.  Click on any item in the list, which brings up a complete list of links to these files.  The 'documentation' file is the unabbreviated article.  Other files that may prove useful are an MS PowerPoint file,  a full MS Excel spreadsheet file, a large number of abbreviated speadsheet files, and a file describing model construction.  (Note: The PDF HiRes and PDF w/links files are restricted access.  However, they are only PDF files of the abbreviated article.)
    ACS link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed086p651

 

PAPERS and POSTERS:

  • paper
    Paper presented at the 120th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Using Liquid Flow in Plastic Models to Demonstrate Gravity Currents in the Classroom", November 2010
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 113th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Using Water Flow Through a Plastic Model to Demonstrate Diffusion and Thermal Conductivity", November 2003.  (For diffusion model construction see the Diffusion Model page.)  
  • poster
    "1H and 13 C NMR Peak Assignments for Aspirin Using Molecular Modeling and 2D NMR", Derek Bailey, Kristen Miller and Harvey Blanck; 218th ACS National Meeting; NewOrleans; August 1999.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the spring meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, Collegiate Division, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 1H and 13C Assignments for Aspirin Using Molecular modeling and NMR" Kristen Miller, Derek Bailey and Harvey Blanck, April 1999.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 108th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Calculation of El Nino's Oceanic Excess Thermal Energy Using TOPEX Satellite Altimetry Data", November,1998.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 49th meeting of the SouthEastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS-98), "Using TOPEX Satellite El Nino Altimetry Data for the Introduction of Thermal Expansion and Heat Capacity Concepts in Chemistry Courses", November,1998.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 103st meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Derivation of Boiling Point Elevation and Freezing Point Depression Equations from Graphical Representations", November,1993.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Stacey West and Billy Pruett of a paper presented at the Middle Tennessee Section, Collegiate Division, Tennessee Academy of Science, "Detection of the Third Equivalence Point for the Reaction of H3PO4 with NaOH by Conductometric Titrimetry", April, 1993.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Virginia Crabtree and Sharon Parker of a paper presented at the Middle Tennessee Section, Collegiate Division, Tennessee Academy of Science, "A Comparison of Molecular Characteristics calculated by Molecular Modeling Programs and NMR Chemical Shifts of substitutyed Porphyrins complexed with Trinitrobenzene.", April,1992.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 101st meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "A Simple Mathematical Solution to a Flow Problem", November,1991.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Kathryn Dowlen of a paper presented at a regional undergraduate chemistry conference at Memphis State University, "Using Molecular Modeling (PCMODEL) and Molecular Orbital (MOPAC) Software to Study Chiral Biphenyl Molecules", February, 1991.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 100th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Introduction to a Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator Using a Modified Particle in a Box Problem", November, 1990.
  • paper
    Coauthor with John D. Foote of a paper presented at the 100th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "A Demonstration of Hexagonal and Cubic Closest Packing Using BBs and a Watch Glass", November, 1990.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Jaime Taylor of a poster board presentation at the University of Kentucky, "Interfacing a Chemtrix Type pH Meter to a Commodore 64 Computer", April, 1990.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Eugene Stewart of a poster board presentation at the University of Kentucky, "Using PCMODEL and MOPAC to Complement Undergraduate Organic and Physical Chemistry", April, 1990.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Eugene Stewart of a paper presented at the Middle Tennessee Section, Collegiate Division, Tennessee Academy of Science, "Using Molecular Modeling (PCMODEL)and Molecular Orbital (MOPAC) Software to Complement Undergraduate Organic and Physical Chemistry.", March, 1990.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 40th American Chemical Society Southeast Regional Meeting, Atlanta, GA, "Using the Periodic Table as a Guide to Nuclear Stability and Decay", November 1988.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 97th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Using Nuclide Stability and Decay Rules in General Chemistry", November 1987.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 96th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "The Effects of Helium upon Flame Characteristics", November 1986.
  • paper
    Coauthor with Dan Bucy of a paper presented at the Middle Tennessee Section, Collegiate Division, Tennessee Academy of Science, "Interfacing a Microcomputer to an XY Recorder", April 1986.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 95th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Density Using Archimedes' Principle: A Microcomputer/Electronic Balance Interface Exercise", November 1985.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, "Microcomputer Acquisition of LED Data from a Digital Balance", November 1985.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 94th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "A Thermistor/VIC 20 Microcomputer Gameport Interface", November 1984.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 93rd meeeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "A One Chip Interface Between a Digital Panel Meter and A Microcomputer", November 1983.
  • papers
    Two papers presented to the 1983 National Workshop (East) on Computers in Chemical Education on digital panel meter interfaces, August 1983.
  • paper
    Paper presented at the 91st meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, "Atmospheric Adiabatic Lapse Rates", November 1981.

 

OTHER:

  • workshop
    Selected to participate in a National Science Foundation funded workshop on molecular orbital theory at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, June 1991.
  • honor
    Selected as the 1991 recipient of the APSU Richard M. Hawkins Award for creative excellence and scholarship, May, 1991.
  • workshop
    Selected to participate in a National Science Foundation funded workshop on molecular modeling at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, August 1988.
  • NSF grant
    Principal investigator of $18,500 National Science Foundation matching funds grant for a $37,000 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer; grant approved July 1987.
  • visiting scientist
    Selected as Senior Lecturer and Visiting Scientist in Chemistry at University of Texas at Dallas. Conducted research and taught graduate electronics and computer interfacing course. Summer 1987.

 

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