ITFH is LIVE again! Our host Matt Cooper chats with Sindia Rivera-Jiménez (University of Florida), Tracy Gardner (Colorado School of Mines), Dami Daramola (Ohio University) and Micha Barankin (Colorado School of Mines) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their wide-ranging discussion of this year's Summer School touches on the beautiful venue, favorite workshops from the week, pushing personal boundaries while whitewater rafting and biking, and testimonials on why faculty should attend the ChE Summer School summer school. Spoken-word poetry intro by Courtney Pfluger (Northeastern University)!

ITFH goes LIVE as host Matt Cooper chats with Dan Anastasio (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dan Burkey (University of Connecticut) and Sandy Petit (University of South Florida) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their discussion of ChE Summer Schools of the past ends up going in many directions, including favorite workshops, a quest for clothes hangers, an early memory of Milo Koretsky, and go-to karaoke jams. Bonus appearance by hype person Lucas Landherr (Northeastern University)!

Courtney Pfluger, Associate Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, is ITFH host Matt Cooper's guest in this entertaining episode of the show! They discuss Courtney's innovative research in inclusive teams, clean water, and renewable energy education in Brazil. Matt is delighted to learn of Courtney's unique favorite band, and even more delighted when he and Courtney rap to Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy" together!

Taryn Bayles, Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, joins podcast host Matt Cooper in the fume hood. In this episode Matt and Taryn theorize what makes our ChE education community so great, discuss Taryn's successes in student outreach and design projects, and Taryn shares incredible stories of her ballet career.

In this episode ITFH host Matt Cooper catches up with Daniel Lepek (Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Cooper Union) about his goals as current Chair of the AIChE Education Division, share pet peeves as ABET PEVs, and talk about what wine pairs best with fried bologna. We are also fortunate to hear Daniel - a trained classical pianist - play a bit of the song "Paris" as part of this interview.

Double the Matt! Matt Liberatore, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo, joins ITFH host Matt Cooper for a wide-ranging conversation about Matt L's work on interactive textbooks and YouTube problems, his service as Chair of the AIChE Education division and... harp music!

This time Matt's ChE talk show guest is Sarah Wilson, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. They discuss Sarah's current NSF research project on the mental health of engineering students, her collaborative work in safety education, as well as her new course on bourbon production.

In this edition of ITFH our host Matt Cooper speaks with Elif Miskioğlu, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, about System 1 and System 2 thinking, Elif's experiences being named one of AIChE's 35 Under 35, and - if you can believe it - singing to puppies.

This edition of ITFH features Matt Cooper's incredible conversation with Milo Koretsky (Tufts University) about conceptual teaching/learning and how the AIChE Concept Warehouse got started - Milo even gives Matt an on-air concept test! Milo also explains just how deep the rabbit hole of a phase diagram goes before he and Matt find out they've both seen Bob Dylan and Paul Simon live in concert.

Tony Butterfield, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah and Matt talk about enabling citizen science, social connections in capstone design and unit ops laboratories, storytelling in video games, and find out they both like Beck, Arcade Fire, and can recite lyrics from Radiohead's OK Computer album off the top of their heads.

Margot Vigeant, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, joins Matt to talk about food science and her new article series on the topic in the journal Chemical Engineering Education, applications of entropy to whiskey, and what turns out to be their shared fondness for the band They Might Be Giants.

Season 2 kicks off with the first-ever ITFH interview! Matt talks with Professor Lucas Landherr (Northeastern University) about being CEE's comic mastermind, his recent AIChE process control conceptual testing presentation and '90s alternative music. Bonus dirt on the family lives of Carnot and Bernoulli too!

In the Season 1 finale, Matt and Jason answer questions from listeners and get into discussions about easter eggs in textbooks, policies grading exams, Rankine, Kelvin, Joule, pro wrestling, cooking, aspic (aka beef jelly), Jello molds, advice for faculty, and a nickname for ITFH listeners.

In the final episode of a three part series, Matt and Jason further discuss HW problems and a whole lot more. Topics include: orange juice, infomercial science, TVs in hotel bathrooms, absorption-stripping, Whizzo(!), Deacon Process, chlor-alkali, dilution of emissions, losing weight by eating ice, fuel vs. food, and corn on the cob. We will wrap up Season 1 next week with a Q&A session!

In the second of a three part series, Matt and Jason get into discussing HW problems and a whole lot more. Topics include: leaching oil from soybeans, egg sorting, old-timey baseball names, The Simpsons softball episode, making jam, food science, coffee and espresso, Guinness, golden rice, GMO foods, tomatoes, tomacco, artificial flavors, bananas and avocados.

The first season is drawing to a close, but we've still got a few episodes left. In this first of a three part series, Matt and Jason discuss finishing the semester, thermodynamics textbooks, acronyms, In Living Color, David Alan Grier, Tenacious D, High Fidelity, student comments in course evaluations, engineering estimations, sometimes there is no exact answer.

This week, Matt and Jason discuss final exams, breakfast and eggs, hydrogen, fuels, air, combustion, mobile apps for ChemEs, publishing journal articles, reality vs. textbook, "human error", how much catalyst to use, and why this summer already feels different.

A quick bite of extra material that didn't make the cut for Episode 16. Matt and Jason's discussion about catalysts quickly morphs into reminiscing about Mr. T and the 1980s. Also some observations about grocery shopping during Covid-19 shutdowns.

This week, Matt and Jason discuss propylene and propane, IUPAC names for chemicals, recycle loops, separations, the Amazon reviews for FRB book, purge streams, and recycling of aluminum vs. plastics.

This week, Matt and Jason record from home for the first time during the Covid-19 shutdown. Topics include the challenges of working and teaching from home, more discussion about balancing reactions, Matt's "instant nickname generator algorithm", learning styles, and what an engineer should know.