Dale Harak, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Taught undergraduate courses in general chemistry, analytical chemistry, and instrumental analysis.• Provided hands-on training and use of instrumentation that is relevant to real-life chemical problems.• Focused coursework and lab work on instructing students in electrochemistry and chemical separations. • Educated students on the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. • Planned and oversaw laboratory experiments and ensured compliance with laboratory safety standards.• Instructed on precipitation titration, acid-base titration, EDTA titration, gas chromatography, HPLC, mass spectroscopy, voltammetry, coulometry, potentiometry. • Advised and guided undergraduate research projects in the areas of GC-MS and electroanalytical chemistry.• Oversaw experiments in enzyme kinetics, electrocatalysis, food and environmental analysis, and other studies. • Guided students on conducting data analysis of experimental results using a variety of statistical analysis software.• Utilized Excel, HP ChemStation, BioAnalytical Systems Epsilon, and Pine Research AfterMath software.• Taught students how to create calibration curves for experiments such as protein concentration in enzyme studies.• Evaluated and graded students’ class work, laboratory performance, assignments, and papers.• Wrote grant proposals to obtain and maintain financial support for research projects and analytical instrumentation.• Key Accomplishments:- Obtained $20,000 in grants from the Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Program.- Supported student research projects to quantify lead and mercury in food products using AES/AAS.- Mentored student environmental research projects to quantify bisphenol A in aqueous samples.- Selected to serve as the interim Chair of the Chemistry Department managing a small academic department with 7 full-time faculty and 2 adjunct faculty.- Served Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee from 2020-2023.

Associate Professor (2001 – 2019)/Assistant Professor (1995 – 2001)• Provided instruction for undergraduate courses in general chemistry, analytical chemistry, and instrumental analysis.• Taught students how to conduct experiments using liquid and gas chromatography (HPLC/LC/GC) using both HP and Agilent chromoatographic instrumentation.• Educated students on the concepts and application of electroanalytical chemistry using BioAnalytical Systems Epsilon Electrochemical Workstation, and Pine Instruments WaveNow Electrochemical Workstation.• Planned and oversaw the conduct of a variety of laboratory experiments teaching good lab technique and lab safety.• Mentored undergraduate research projects in areas involving electroanalytical chemistry, HPLC, and GC-MS.• Monitored student compliance with safety rules for handling chemicals, equipment, and other hazardous materials.• Evaluated and graded students’ class work, laboratory performance, assignments, and papers.• Key Accomplishments:- Selected to serve as the Chair of the Chemistry Department managing a small academic department with 7 full-time faculty and 2 adjunct faculty from May 2004 to May 2008.- Supported student research projects including electrocatalysis, liquid chromatography, and electrode surface studies using LC-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, electrochemical, and other analytical instruments.- Conducted research in the electrochemical characterization of Rh@Pt nanocubes during a research sabbatical at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, IN in 2014.- Attained tenure at the University and promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in 2001.

• Conducted electrochemical research studies using cyclic voltammetry, chronocoulometry, and amperometry. • Utilized flow-injection analysis utilizing cells exhibiting controlled release of reagents into the carrier stream.• Gained familiarity with scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis.

• Taught general chemistry laboratories for science and engineering majors and quantitative chemical analysis.• Instructed students in instrumental analysis laboratories involving techniques such as HPLC, GC, conventional and precision spectrophotometry, polarography, potentiometry, cyclic voltammetry, non-aqueous titrations, atomic absorption spectroscopy, size exclusion chromatography, and thin-layer chromatography.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Analytical Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry