Presentations

Disciplinary Research - Oral Presentations

1. D. E. Mencer and D.L. Cocke, - The Oxidation and Oxide Overlayer Stability of AgMn Alloys, Twelfth Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, a Topical Conference of the American Vacuum Society, Albuquerque, NM, April 25-27, 1990.
2. D. E. Mencer and D.L. Cocke, - The Surface Reactivity, Structure, and Thermal Stability of Ti-Al Alloys, 10^th Annual Symposium: Electronic Materials, Processing and Characterization, Dallas, TX, June 3-4, 1991.
3. D. E. Mencer - Solvent Properties of Ionic Liquids: Silver and Lead Halide Solubility at the 29^th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM 2000), University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT (June 18 - 21, 2000).
4. D.E. Mencer, Production of amorphous Ni-Re-P alloys from acidic hypophosphite solutions by electroless deposition at The XXIII Congreso Internacional de Metalurgia y Materiales held November 7 - 9, 2002 at the Instituto Technologico de Saltillo, Saltillo, Coahillo, Mexico.
5. *D.L. Cocke, M.A. Hossain, D.E. Mencer, H. McWhinney, Jose R. Parga, M.Y.A. Mollah, D.G. Naugle, and M. Kesmez, Electrochemical Properties of Copper Oxide Surfaces, Buried Interfaces, and Subsurface Zones and Their Use to Characterize These Entities, 2002 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, December 2 - 6, 2002.
6. D.E. Mencer, M. A. Hossain, M. Kesmez, D. G. Naugle and D. L. Cocke Metal-Oxide Interfacial Evolution In Thermally Grown Oxide Films, 2002 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, December 2 - 6, 2002.

Disciplinary Research - Poster Presentations

1. D.L. Cocke, D. E. Mencer, D.G. Naugle, and C.L. Tsai, - XPS Investigation of the Surfaces of Amorphous (Ti₉₀Ru₁₀)₈₇Si₁₃, Industry University Cooperative Chemistry Program, 4^th Annual Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1986.
2. D. E. Mencer, T.R. Hess, T. Mebrahtu, D.L. Cocke, and D.G. Naugle, - The Surface Reactivity of Titanium Aluminum Alloys: Ti₃Al, TiAl, and TiAl₃, 37^th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 8-12, 1990.
3. D. E. Mencer - Electrochemical Processes in Liquid Ionic Solvents, 218^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Fall 1999 Meeting), New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999.
4. D. E. Mencer - Electroless Deposition and Corrosion Studies of Amorphous Ni-Re-P Alloys Deposited from Acidic Hypophosphite Solutions at the 220^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Fall 2000 Meeting), Washington, D.C. (August 20 - 24, 2000).
5. D.E. Mencer, D.L. Cocke, M.A. Hossain, Investigating the composition of multiphase copper oxide materials, 228^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Fall 2004 Meeting), Philadelphia, PA (August 22-26, 2004).
6. Rachel Giroux*, Beth Karwaski*, Kenneth Klemow, Therese Wignot, Donald Mencer, and Brian Whitman Role Of Plant Architecture And Cuticular Features In Removing Iron From Wetlands Constructed To Treat Abandoned Mine Drainage. 82^nd Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science Holiday Inn, Grantville, PA (March 31-April 2, 2006).

*Note: These undergraduate students presented this poster.

Pedagogical - Oral Presentations

1. D. E. Mencer - Collaborative Group Work with Interactive WWW Pages, Sixth Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State University, State College, PA, April 4, 1998.
2. D. E. Mencer - Using Interactive WWW Pages for Introductory College Chemistry Education, Fifteenth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 9 – 13, 1998.
3. D. E. Mencer - Incorporating Web Based Materials into 1^st Year Chemistry, a Faculty Undergraduate Research Network presentation at the Thirteenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 8-10, 1999.
4. D. E. Mencer - Why Put Chemistry on the Web, 28^th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM '99), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, June 22-25, 1999.
5. D. E. Mencer - A Group Experiment on Solubility for General Chemistry Laboratory, CHEMED'99, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, August 1-5, 1999.
6. D. E. Mencer - Developing Course Materials for the Web at the Empower VI Convocation sponsored by The Jack P. Royer Center for Learning and Academic Technologies, Penn State University, University Park, PA, September 16-17, 1999.
7. D. E. Mencer (On-line Conference) – Developing and Implementing Computer Simulations for In-Class and Small Group Work Summer 2000 CONFCHEM: The Use of Computer Simulations in General Chemistry (an on-line conference May 12 - June 6, 2000). Papers are then archived electronically (http://ched-ccce.org/confchem/2000/b/index.html).
8. D. E. Mencer - Small Group Work Using Web-based Computer Simulations at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 30 - August 3, 2000.
9. D. E. Mencer - Changing General Chemistry Lecture with Interactive Web-based Course Materials at the 220^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Fall 2000 Meeting), Washington, D.C., August 20 - 24, 2000.
10. D.E. Mencer - Web-based Computer Simulations for In-Class, Individual, and Small Group Work, ED-MEDIA 2002--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Denver, CO, United States, June 24-29, 2002.
11. D.E. Mencer - Preparing the freshman pre-pharmacy student for organic chemistry at the Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, July 18 - 22, 2004.
12. Donald Mencer Jr. and J. Michael Case - An Interdepartmental Offering in Instrumental Analysis, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society 2005 (MARM 2005), Rutgers University, Rutgers-Busch Campus, Piscataway, New Jersey, May 22-25, 2005.
13. Donald E. Mencer - Permanent magnet FT-NMR spectrometers: Versatile tools for undergraduate instruction and high school outreach, 230^th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Fall 2005 Meeting), Washington, D.C. August 28-Sept. 1, 2005.
14. Donald E. Mencer - NMR: Incorporating Multiple Methods into a PUI College Curriculum, 3rd Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research and Education in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Bucknell University, Lewsiburg, PA 29 Sept. 2007.

Pedagogical - Poster Presentations

1. D. E. Mencer - In Search of the Influence of Ionic Atmosphere on Solubility Equilibria at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 30 - August 3, 2000).