Cory Jensen
Areas of Expertise Chemical, Biological, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering; design, evaluation and analysis of these systems, including policy frameworks, with interests in extending traditional design principles. Examples include: utilizing design for the environment principles, sustainability pedagogy particularly using science-technology-society perspectives, and that involve innovation!
While at the Colorado School of Mines I have been developing pedagogical philosophy and a deep appreciation for community, made possible via work with a Denver Public School. As part of this process, Denver Urban Gardens community gardens have been used as experiential learning and teaching tools to build a basis for exploration of sustainability science topics that have allowed for extension and innovative as part of a senior design engineering program. My efforts have also allowed me to participate in a NSF GK-12 fellowship program and a student diversity internship with the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention in the US EPA. I am also interested in studies of China and in Asian Development.
ChEnected contributions
Nanotechnology Growing in Importance with New Advances
Nanotechnology advances continue to accelerate as researchers produce an increasing amount of incredible new materials and products.
ICOSSE III: Water-Innovative Technology, Manufacturing, and Energy
Didn't catch ICOSSE this summer? Read one chemical engineer's account of it, and his thoughts on the topics covered.
Calling Cross Disciplinary Innovators: The Green Guy Wants You!
Cross-disciplinary collaboration has the potential to solve many of the world's great challenges, including some major environmental hurdles.
Rocky Mountain K-12 Outreach in Action!
Greetings from the Rocky Mountain Section of AIChE! Since our section covers a lot of territory, it makes sense that several different types of outreach projects exist throughout the region. We encourage new members and young professionals to lead similar efforts and take the time to share their efforts as well! Following, we highlight two of our outreach efforts.
2011 AIChE Western Regional Student Conference at California State University at Long Beach (CSULB)
Dr. Donna Riley on Energy and Justice: Making the Connections in Engineering Thermodynamic
Three Wikipedias?
It really bothers me when I see engineering students working on homework that rely upon computer-based references for equations.
Young Professional-Fellows Mentoring Pilot Discussion Topics
Over the course of the YP-Fellows mentoring pilot program (June 2010 to December 2010), three discussion topics were offered to pairs in order to stimulate conversation and promote dialogue. David Wishnick and I selected three topics that can be represented generally as: 1) Networking 2) Ethics, and 3) “When mentoring goes bad,” each utilizing a respective publication as a center piece.
Young Professionals Mix It Up with Students and Outreach at 2010 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City
AiChE young professionals attending the 2010 Annual meeting in Salt Lake City took in a football (i.e., soccer) game in their free time.
Volunteers Teach Science of Urban Gardens
Community outreach and volunteer programs can benefit volunteers as much as the intended recipients of these programs. One chemical engineer shares his recent experience of getting involved with a science program in the Denver area that teaches school students about the science behind urban gardens.
Man Creates Synthetic Life
When you think of synthetic life, how many of you conjure up an image of Bishop 341-B, from the 1986 science fiction film Aliens or do you think of the largely genetic focused science instead?
AIChE launches the Fellows-Young Professionals Mentoring Pilot Program
This post is part of a series on Young Professional Initiatives.
