Engineering High School

Tamara Floyd Smith, Ph.D., P.E.

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Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, AL 36088

334-***-****

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GA PE License # 032739

APPOINTMENTS

****-******* ****ciate Professor and 3M Scholar, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering,

Architecture and Physical Sciences (CEAPS), Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL.

2007-present Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences

(CEAPS), Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL.

2003-2007 Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Architecture and

Physical Sciences, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL.

2001-2003 Member of Technical Staff, OFS (formerly Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs), Optical

Fiber Research and Development, Norcross, GA

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, November 2001.

Thesis Advisors: Professor Klavs F. Jensen (ChemE) and Professor Martin A. Schmidt (EECS). Thesis

Title: A Novel Microchemical System for Rapid Liquid-Liquid Chemistry

MIT, M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, 1998

Tuskegee University (TU), B.S., Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, 1996.

SELECTED JOURNAL AND BOOK PUBLICATIONS

David Baah, Julaunica Tigner, Kala Bean, Bernard Britton, Nicole Walker, Gwynetta Henderson and

Tamara Floyd-Smith, Microfluidic Synthesis and Post Processing of Non-Spherical Polymeric

Microparticles, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, in press.

David Baah, Julaunica Tigner, Kala Bean, Nicole Walker, Bernard Britton, Tamara Floyd-Smith,

Preparation of Planar Graded Refractive Index Nanocomposites Using Microfluidics, Materials Science

and Engineering B, 2011, (176) 883.

Ki Wan Bong, Stephen C. Chapin, Daniel C. Pregibon, David Baah, Tamara M. Floyd-Smith and Patrick

S. Doyle, Compressed-air Flow Control System, Lab on a Chip, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00303D.

Tamara Floyd-Smith, David Baah, James Bradley, Michelle Sidler, Rosine Hall and Christine Curtis,

Concepts of Nanoscience for Non-Scientists: A Synchronous Distance Education Course for Non-

Scientists Coordinated Among Three Universities, Chemical Engineering Education, 2010, (44) 30-34.

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Dwayne Vickers, Lynden Archer and Tamara Floyd-Smith Synthesis and Characterization of Cubic

Cobalt Oxide Nanocomposite Fluids, Colloids and Surfaces A, 2009, (348) 39-44.

Tamara Floyd-Smith, David Baah, Kala Bean, April Hollinger, Dwayne Vickers and Jeremy York,

Principles of Nanotechnology for Middle and High School Students, Journal of Materials Education,

2009, (31) 167-174.

D. Baah, D. Vickers, A. Hollinger, T. Floyd-Smith, Patterned Dispersion of Nanoparticles in Hydrogels

using Microfluidics, Materials Letters, 2008, (62) 3833-3835.

Willie F. Harper, Jr., Tamara Floyd-Smith and Taewoo Yi, Chemical Processes During Biological

Wastewater Treatment (Chapter 16), Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment

Systems, CRC Press: New York, NY, 2008.

Kyung C. Kwon, Yoonkook Park, Tamara Floyd, Nader Vahdat, Erica Jackson and Paul Jones,

Rheological Characterization of Shear-Thinning Fluids with a Novel Viscosity Equation of a Tank-tube

Viscometer, Applied Rheology, 2007, (17) 51413.

K.C. Kwon, Y. Park, T. Floyd-Smith, N. Vahdat, E. Jackson, C. Burnell, T. Allen and P. Jones,

Rheological Characterization of Non-Newtonian Fluids With a Novel Viscometer, Chemical

Engineering Communications, 2007, (195) 687-705.

J. Golden*, Tamara M. Floyd-Smith*, D. Mott, F. S. Ligler, Target Delivery in a Microfluidic

Immunosensor, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2007, (22) 2763-2767. (* = authors contributed equally to

this work).

Tamara M. Floyd-Smith, K.C. Kwon, J. A. Burmester, F. Dale, N. Vahdat, P. Jones, Demonstration and

Assessment of a Simple Viscosity Experiment for High School Science Classes, Chemical Engineering

Education, Summer 2006

Tamara M. Floyd-Smith, J. Golden, P. Howell, F. S. Ligler, Characterization of Passive Microfluidic

Mixers Fabricated Using Soft Lithography, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2006, (2) 180-183.

Tamara M. Floyd, M. A. Schmidt, K. F. Jensen, A Silicon Micromixer with Infrared Detection for

Studies of Liquid Phase Reactions, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2005, (44), 2351-

2358.

Rebecca J. Jackman, Tamara M. Floyd, Reza Ghodssi, Martin A. Schmidt, Klavs F. Jensen, Microfluidic

Systems with On-line UV Detection Fabricated in Photodefinable Epoxy, J. Micromech. Microeng,

2001, (11) 263-269.

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