Dr. Timothy Ehler Associate Professor of Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wyoming
M.A., University of South Dakota
B.S., Buena Vista University
Prior to joining Northwestern's faculty, Dr. Ehler was the Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa Central Community College for six years. He also taught chemistry for 19 years at Buena Vista University, his alma mater, and for one year at Briar Cliff College. He is a grant-winning researcher who has presented his work at state and regional scientific meetings and been published in Applied Physics B, the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
In addition to a bachelor's degree in chemistry from BVU, he has a master's degree in chemistry from the University of South Dakota and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Wyoming.
“Cost Effective Construction of a Contact Angle Goniometer”, Z. Gernhart, K. Foreman, T.T. Ehler, Iowa Academy of Sciences, Lamoni, IA, April 2010 (Poster)
“Investigation of Ocadecanthiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gallium Aresenide using Surface Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG)” Z. Gernhart, K. Foreman, T.T. Ehler, 44th American Chemical Society’s Midwest Regional Meeting in Iowa City, IA, October 2009 (Poster)
“Preparation and Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold and Gallium Arsenide” Z. Gernhart, K. Foreman, T.T. Ehler, Iowa Academy of Sciences, Des Moines, IA, April 2009 (Poster)
“Study of Octadecanethiol SAMs on Gallium Arsenide” Z. Gernhart, K. Foreman, T.T. Ehler, 43rd American Chemical Society’s Midwest Regional Meeting in Kearney, NE, October 2008.
“High-Resolution Sum-Frequency Generation from Alkysiloxane Monolayers” B.C. Chow, T.T. Ehler, T.E. Furtak, Applied Phys. B, 2002, 74, 395
“In-situ Surface Plasmon Study of the Electropolymerization of Fe(vbpy)32+ onto a Gold Surface ” T.T. Ehler, J.W. Walker, J.C. Jurchen, Y. Shen, K. Morris, B.P. Sullivan, L.J. Noe, J. Electroanalytical Chem., 2000, 480(1-2), 94.
“Studies of Organometallic Self-Assembled Monolayers on Ag and Au using Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy” T. T. Ehler, B.P. Sullivan, K.T. Carron, and L.J. Noe; J. Phys. Chem. B, 1997, 101(16), 3174.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education (CHED)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Membership reviewer for Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2015.
Peer reviewer of manuscripts for the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Chemical Education for 2010 and 2011.
Member of the Northern Plains Undergraduate Research Center’s Managerial Board, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 2005 to 2011.
Reviewer for research proposals submitted to the Northern Plains Undergraduate Research Center, 2006 to 2011.
Committee member of the 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Ames, IA, July 2004.
Committee member of the ACS Exams Institute that worked on the development of a conceptual chemistry national standardized exam. The exam was finalized in October 2004 and available in spring 2005.
Selected as a participant for the American Chemical Society’s General Chemistry Pilot Program, a project which developed a new one-year general chemistry course for science majors.
