Education:
UW-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 1976
B.S. Chemistry
Oregon State University , Corvallis,
OR 1985 Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry
(Major Professor: Dr. E. H.
Piepmeier)
Experience:
1977-1983 Teaching Assistant, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, OR
1983-1990 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, Eau Claire,
WI (Awarded tenure, 1989)
1990- 1998 Associate Professor of
Chemistry
1992-1993 Acting Chair of UW-EC Chemistry
Department
1993-1996 Chair of UW-EC Chemistry Department
1998
- present Professor of Chemistry
Society Memberships and Honors:
American Chemical Society (UW-EC
ACS-SA Advisor, 1984-86,1992-94 and 1997-99)
Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry
Phi Lambda Upsilon
Awarded-UWEC ACS-SA Faculty Appreciation
Award, "The Melvin", 1993
Awarded-Milton Harris Teaching Award
for Graduate Assistants, OSU, 1982
Publications:
1. Piepmeier, E. H.; Eierman, R.
J., Anal. Chem., 1986 , 58, 2474.
2. Mullin, J.; Eierman, R. J., J.
Chem. Ed., 1990 , 67, p. 878.
3. Tlusty, R; McIntyre, S.; Eierman,
R.; 1993, Cooperative Learning in a College Chemistry
Course, ERIC ED359874.
4. Eierman, R. J., Teaching Forum,
1993, Vol. 15, No. 1, "Research as Teaching: Learning
Communities in Chemistry".
5. Eierman, R,. "Development
of Analytical and Reporting Skills in Quantitative Analysis",
J. Ch. Ed., 1998, 75, 869.
6. Eierman, R., "Students Select
an Instrument at Pittsburgh Conference", J. Ch. Ed., 1998,
75, 571.
Collaborators
1. Dr. Donald Campbell, UWEC Department
of Chemistry
2. Dr. Robert Hollon, UWEC College
of Education
3. Dr. Karen Havholm, UWEC Department of Geology
4. Dr. Erik Hendrickson, UWEC Department
of Physics
Recent undergraduate student collaborators
1. Kristin Benedict
2. Kelly Bauer
3. Erin Herriot
4. Christine Nelson
5. Valerie Pumala
Presentations (since 1992):
1992 "Cooperative Quantitative
Analysis Students Designing Experiments?", R. J. Eierman,
Y. Okabe, J. Turk, S. McIntyre, R. Tlusty, National ACS Meeting,
San Francisco, CA.
"Cooperative Quantitative Analysis
Students Designing Experiments?", R. J. Eierman,
Y. Okabe, J. Turk, S. McIntyre, R. Tlusty, ACS Great Lakes Regional
Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
1992 "Cooperative
Chemistry Students", R. J. Eierman, Y. Okabe, J.
Turk, S. McIntyre, Tlusty, International Society for Exploring
Teaching Alternatives Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
"A Jigsaw in Quantitative Analysis, Piecing Together Experimental Design" Y. Okabe, R. J. Eierman, WI Undergraduate Regional Symposium, Madison, WI.
1993 "Cooperative Lectures" R. J. Eierman
,Y. Okabe Analytical Chemistry Teaching Award Symposium, National
ACS Meeting Chicago, IL.
"Cooperative Methods in Chemical
Education" R. J. Eierman, Loyola University, Chicago
IL.
1994 "The Analytical Process in Chemistry
Lab," BCCE, Bucknell University.
1995 "Instrumental
Analysis of Groundwater in the Teaching Lab," National ACS
Meeting, Chicago, IL.
1998 "Development of Analytical and
Reporting Skills in Quantitative Analysis", Poster, Gordon
Conference on College Chemistry Teaching, Ventura, CA.
"A Student-defined Special Project in Quantitative Analysis", Great Lakes Regional ACS Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
"Let's Do Quant", MUACC, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
1999
"Chemistry in a Circle: The Guided Reading Assignment Refocuses
Teaching and Learning", Poster, Gordon Conference on College
Chemistry Teaching, New London, CT.
Current and Past Support:
1985 "Computerization of Instrumental
Analysis," UW System UTI Grant, $5729.
1986 "Simplex Optimization of
Analysis," UW-EC Research Grant, $1550.
1987 "Multidisciplinary Use
of an Atomic Absorption Spectrometer," NSF-CSIP, $25,615
(matching funds from UW-EC).
1988 "Investigations of Uphill
Transport Membranes Using Microvoltammetric Electrodes."
Research Corporation, $12,420 (matching funds from UW-EC).
1989 "Applications of Modern
Liquid Chromatography in Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis."
NSF-ILIP, $31,801 (matching funds from UWEC).
1989 Summer Stipend to pursue research
in the laboratory of Dr. Marion Stankovich at the University
of Minnesota, $10,000.
1990 "Gas Chromatography/Mass
Spectrometry in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum"
Hewlett Packard, $53,500.
1991 "Experiences in Cooperation
and Experimental Design in the General Chemistry Laboratory."
NSF-UCCD, $25,523.
1991 "Spectroelectrochemical
Characterization of MDH." University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Research Grant, $3,000.
1993 "CUBE Science Institute" Eisenhower Funds $113,818 (2 yrs).
1998 "STEPS Summer Workshop" Eisenhower Funds, $33,147.
2000 "PESTO Summer Workshop"
Eisenhower Funds, $52,934.