ChEnected Posts by Cory Jensen

Cory Jensen

Chemical Engineer
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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! Research Projects Experience Optoelectronic Biosensors, Environmental Field Work, Process (bio and traditional chemical) Modeling, Biogas Technologies and Policy Considerations, Life Cycle Analysis of Materials, Energy Studies With Wireless Motes & Networks, Chemical Safety Assessment, Aquatic Plant Based Remediation, Outreach & Community Capacity Building.

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.

Rocky Mountain K-12 Outreach in Action!

December 02, 2011. By Cory Jensen
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.

Young Professional-Fellows Mentoring Pilot Discussion Topics

December 31, 2010. By Cory Jensen
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.

Volunteers Teach Science of Urban Gardens

December 01, 2010. By Cory Jensen
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

July 29, 2010. By Cory Jensen
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?

Galvanotropism in the Context of Biomass Pre-treatment

June 21, 2010. By Cory Jensen
The recalcitrance of cellulosic matter has been an active area of research for sometime that has intensified as part of the Department of Energy’s Biomass program. To that end, how many people can comment on the wide variety of approaches that can be taken to investigate recalcitrance? Pretreatment processes are accepted required steps in overall fermentative biomass process schemes.