Experience Synopsis:
I have been a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, the University of Tennessee at Martin, from 31 August 2009 until now. My course load for the fall semester includes two lecture courses and three laboratory courses. While in the department, I have developed several unique physical chemistry experiments designed for the physical chemistry laboratory course that is taught in the spring semester. Among these experiments include a kinetics experiment that uses time-monitored pH measurements for tracking reaction rates. I developed this rather unique and concise approach to measuring aqueous reaction kinetics while an instructor at the United
States Military Academy. I am now expanding this approach to cover a wider range of chemical conditions and reactions, and at the same time making the approach amenable to undergraduate students.
I worked as a senior scientist at ENSCO, Inc. (the Melbourne office) from January 2004 to June
2008. As a senior scientist, I developed a variety of FORTRAN-based software modules that were incorporated into an operational suite of emission source term and atmospheric transport, diffusion, and reactivity (T,D&R) models. Among these modules included a heterogeneous uptake/reactivity module designed to quantify the uptake of target gaseous compounds onto airborne particulate matter, and a vapor leak source term module designed to quantify the evaporative loss rates of target volatile compounds from leaky storage facilities. In addition, I spearheaded several model evaluation efforts for testing atmospheric chemical reactivity schemes used in the T,D&R models, and evaporative emission source term models. I guided efforts to test the relative importance of certain key atmospheric physical processes such as homogeneous nucleation of target compounds released into the atmosphere, and heterogeneous uptake of target compounds onto airborne particles.
I served in the United States Air Force from February 1984 to December 2003, retiring in the grade of major. While on active duty, I was as an instructor/professor in the Chemistry and Life
Science Department at the United Sates Military Academy (USMA) from September 1999 to
December 2003. During my tenure at USMA, I taught freshman chemistry and first-semester physical chemistry courses, and served as course director for the first-semester physical chemistry course, in which the emphasis is on chemical kinetics and thermodynamics. I developed several laboratory experiments for both freshman and physical chemistry laboratory courses, and wrote a physical chemistry laboratory manual. I also served as an instructor/professor in the Chemistry Department at the United Sates Air Force Academy
(USAFA) from September 1988 to June 1992. I taught freshman and physical chemistry courses and an independent research course during my tenure at USAFA. For my other military assignments, I was a program manager for several government projects in various technical areas including environmental compliance, atmospheric reactivity and fate of target compounds, and treaty monitoring.
I worked as a post-doctoral research associate from January 1983 to February 1984 under Dr.
Neil Kestner at the Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge campus).
As an associate, I conducted quantum mechanical calculations on aqueous solvent-induced
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electron transfer processes involving metal cations, and developed a series of theoretical expressions for Broensted coefficients.
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry at the Louisiana State University (LSU), 1982. As a graduate student, I studied the aqueous hydrolysis reactions of aspirin analogs under Dr. Richard
Gandour (now professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech).
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM), 1978.
Certifications:
Level II acquisition certified in system planning, research, development, and engineering, 1998
Military Training/Education:
Officer Training School, 1984 (I was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation)
Squadron Officers School in residence, 1989
Air Command and Staff College by correspondence, 2002
Software Languages: FORTRAN, BASIC
Software Application Tools: Various statistical data analysis methods, Microsoft PowerPoint,
Excel, Word, graphical user interface (GUI), Mathematica
Computer Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, MS-DOS and windows
Employment/Education History:
August 2009 – present: Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, UTM
2004 – 2008: Senior scientist at ENSCO, Inc. (my job assignments included computer module testing, theoretical model development, and model evaluation and verification)
1984 – 2004: Officer in the United States Air Force (my job assignments included program management of technical tasks contracted to various civilian institutions, and academic instruction at two military academies)
1983 – 1984: Post-doctoral research associate (LSU)
1978 – 1982: Graduate student (LSU)
1974 – 1978: Undergraduate student (UTM)
Subject Matter Expert: innovative experimental designs for measuring various thermodynamic and kinetic parameters; use of UV-VIS spectroscopy and pH for monitoring aqueous-phase reactions; aqueous- and vapor-phase chemical reaction mechanisms; effects of pH, ionic strength, and isotopic substitution on aqueous-phase reaction rates; aqueous-phase acid catalysis; gasphase reaction rate theory; configuration-specific kinetic molecular theory of gases (an area of kinetic molecular theory that I developed while a senior scientist at ENSCO); classical molecular trajectory simulations of heterogeneous mass transport and diffusion processes; atmospheric chemistry modeling; theory of heterogeneous (gas/solid) interactions; atmospheric heterogeneous mass transport processes; thermodynamics; homogeneous nucleation theory; source term vapor emission modeling.
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Fields of Experience: Technical and programmatic management of government contracts; program management in various scientific research areas; use of atmospheric transport, diffusion, and reactivity models (in particular, the Carbon Bond Mechanism); technical task leader; undergraduate academic teaching in freshman and physical chemistry; upper-level academic course director; various types of laboratory experience including synthesis involving isotopic substitution, hydrogenation, and acid catalysis, and aqueous-phase kinetic and thermodynamic studies.
Reports and Publications: Several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and several government technical reports on the environmental fate of exotic fuels and gas-phase ion/molecule reaction mechanisms.
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Wiseman, F. L.; “An Expression for the Drag Force of Small Spherical Particles in an Ideal-Gas
Media Analyzed using Configuration-Specific Kinetic Molecular Theory”; Chem .
Phys . Lett .;
2008 ; 465 ; 175.
Wiseman, F. L.; “Configuration-Specific Kinetic Molecular Theory Applied to an Ideal Binary
Gas Mixture”;
J . Phys .
Chem . A ; 2006 ; 110 ; 11377 .
Wiseman, F. L.; “Configuration-Specific Kinetic Molecular Theory Applied to the Elastic
Collisions of Hard Spherical Molecules”;
J . Phys .
Chem . A ; 2006 ; 110 ; 6379.
Wiseman, F. L.; “Monitoring the Rate of Solvolytic Decomposition of Benzenediazonium
Tetrafluoroborate in Aqueous Media Using a pH Electrode”; J . Chem . Ed .; 2005 ; 82 ; 1841.
Wells, J. R.; Wiseman, F. L.; Williams, D. C.; Baxley, J. S.; Smith, D. F.; “The Products of the
Reaction of the Hydroxyl Radical with 2-Ethoxyethyl Acetate”; Int . J . Chem . Kin .; 1996 ; 28 ;
475.
Wiseman, F. L.; Rice, A. G.; “Modifications to the Angle-Dependent Line of Normals Model for
Gas-Phase Reaction Rate Constants”; J . Chem . Ed .; 1993 ; 70 ; 914.
Wiseman, F. L.; Ozturk, F.; Zerner, M. C.; Eyler, J. R.; “Kinetic modeling of the reactions of
C3H3+ with acetylene, deuteroacetylene, and diacetylene”; Int . J . Chem . Kin .; 1990 ; 22 ; Issue
11 ; 1189.
Stone, D. A.; Wiseman, F. L.; Kilduff, J. E.; Koontz, S. L.; Davis, D. D.; “The Disappearance of
Fuel Vapors in Fluorocarbon-Film Environmental Chambers. Experimental Observations and
Kinetic Modeling”;
Env .
Sci .
& Tech .; 1989 ; 23 ; 328.
Wiseman, F. L.; Kestner, N. R.; “Theoretical studies of Broensted relations”;
J .
Phys .
Chem .;
1984 ; 88 ; 4354.
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