Assistant Professor
Douglas R. Tree
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- School: Brigham Young University
- Campus:
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Location:
Provo, UT - 84602 - Dates at Brigham Young University: December 2017 - May 2020
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Would take again: No
For Credit: Yes
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Mandatory
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I hear he's improved but with 263 he held an extremely difficult and confusing class that did not reflect the homework.
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Would take again: Yes
For Credit: Yes
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Dr. Tree drives you hard to make sure you understand everything, but he and the TAs are still willing to help when you need it. Assignments took approximately 2-3 hours, and assessments were a little stressful since they were held in class (50 minutes) but with open note/internet access. Overall, the class was challenging, but if you put in the effort, you would succeed!
Biography
Brigham Young University - Chemical Engineering
Dr. Tree started at BYU in 2017 and is interested in a number of problems in soft matter and complex fluids, with an emphasis in problems with a novel theoretical or computational component. He is currently working on projects related to polymer crystallization, multi-phase flow in polymer solutions and melts, two-dimensional soft materials and the active self-assembly of polymersomes.
Prior to starting at BYU, Dr. Tree did his doctoral work with Kevin Dorfman in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department at the University of Minnesota, where he used Monte Carlo and Brownian Dynamics simulations of DNA to study questions in both fundamental polymer physics and genomic mapping technologies. Following his PhD, he moved to the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Glenn Fredrickson. In Santa Barbara he created a simulation framework for studying the evolution of the microstructure of polymeric materials and used this software to study polymer membranes made by phase inversion techniques.
Resume
2017
Member
Society of Rheology
French
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
University of Minnesota
Heritage Scholarship
4-year
full tuition scholarship
Brigham Young Univesity
Padden Award Finalist
American Physical Society
Honorable Mention - Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation
Outstanding Senior
Sophomore
Freshman
BYU Chemical Engineering
2009
PhD
Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2007
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Physical Society
American Electrophoresis Society
Tau Beta Pi
2003
BS
magna cum laude
Chemical Engineering
Tau Beta Pi
Brigham Young University
Glenn Fredrickson Research Group
Tree Research Group
Aug 24
2017 I am giving a very short talk (3 minutes!) at the BYU Faculty Networking Seminar on 29 August 2017 as part of BYU’s annual University Conference. For those interested
here is a link to my slides. Aug 5
2017 I am looking for...
Tree Research Group
Volunteer on governing unit for CSCC housing cooperative. Special emphasis on the finances of the organization.
Como Student Community Cooperative
Full-time Volunteer Missionary
Full-time service and proselyting missionary in France. This involved:\n* Teaching people (in French) religious principles and life-improvement skills\n* Working with local leaders and missionary peers\n* Community service
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Monte Carlo Simulation
MPI
Data Analysis
Physics
Fluid Mechanics
Chemical Engineering
CUDA
Simulations
Brownian Dynamics
Experimentation
Unix Shell Scripting
Statistical Mechanics
Stochastic Processes
Matlab
French
Polymer Physics
C++
Thermodynamics
OpenMP
Fortran
Tree
Doug
Tree
Brigham Young University
University of Minnesota
Brigham Young University
UC Santa Barbara
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
Experimental biochemical engineering research for cellulosic ethanol from syngas using anaerobic bacteria. My work focused on enzyme kinetics in batch and CSTR bioreactors.
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Dr. Randy Lewis
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
I am a tenure-track faculty member in the BYU Chemical Engineering department where I teach and do theory and simulation research on polymers and biopolymers.
Assistant Professor
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
Experimental work and simple modeling of Fischer-Tropsch catalysis for synthetic fuels.
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Dr. Cal Bartholomew/Dr. William Hecker
Brigham Young University
Goleta
California
I did research on dynamics of polymer materials using field theories.
Postdoctoral Scholar
UC Santa Barbara
Minneapolis
MN
Theory and computational work (including Monte Carlo and Brownian Dynamics) to examine DNA confined in nanoscale geometries with an emphasis on genomic mapping applications.
Graduate Research Assistant - Dr. Kevin Dorfman
University of Minnesota
Developed a graphics interface for a fluidized bed modeling program using Visual C++ and OpenGL for Windows
Brigham Young University
