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Contact Information

Offices:

1033 Sweeney Hall - Phone: (515) 708-2557

2214 Snedecor Hall - Phone: (515) 708-2557

Email: drollins@iastate.edu

Office Hours Spring 2020:

2:10 - 4:00 T/R - 1033 Sweeney

Classes

Currently Teaching:

  • STAT 305: Engineering Statistics & Chemical Engineering Statistics

  • STAT 587: Statistical Methods for Research Workers

  • ChE 210: Material and Energy Balances

  • ChE 421: Process Dynamics and Control

Previously Taught:

  • STAT 231 Probability and Statistical Inference for Engineers

  • STAT 401, Statistical Methods for Research Workers

  • STAT 515 Theory and Application of Nonlinear Models

  • ChE 590 Advanced Process Control

  • ChE 690, Advanced Statistical Modeling in Chemical Engineering 

Faculty Advisor

Awards

  • 2015 awarded the title ISU “University Professor”

  • 2014 Outstanding Faculty Member, by Interfraternity Council, “Selected as one of ISU’s most outstanding faculty members” Spring 2014.

  • 2013 NOBCChE - Joseph N. Cannon Award in Chemical Engineering recognizing honors and achievements in the Chemical Engineering Field.

  • 2012 Tau Beta Pi MacDonald Mentor Award.

  • 2012 “Citizen of the Year Award” on behalf of the Men of Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity, Inc. Mu Omicron Graduate Chapter, Des Moines, Iowa.

  • 2010 AIChE MAC Eminent Engineer Award.

  • ISU AIChE Student Chapter, "Come on in, it's not my office hours," award (2008).

  • ISU AIChE Student Chapter, "Favorite Faculty Member" award (2008)

  • ISU Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer for Membership into the Iowa Alpha Award (2008).

  • ISU Engineering Student Council Leadership Award, “for significant and lasting contributions to the success of Iowa State engineering students” (2007).

  • VEISHEA Nomination as Faculty of the Year for the College of Engineering (2007).

  • ISU Louis Thompson Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2007).

  • ISU AIChE Student Chapter, "Come on in, it's not my office hours," award (2007).

  • ISU AIChE Student Chapter, "Favorite Faculty Member" award (2007).

  • ISU Engineering Student Council Leadership Award, “for significant and lasting contributions to the success of Iowa State engineering students” (2006).

  • ISU AIChE Student Chapter, "Come on in, it's not my office hours," award (2006).

  • Outstanding Faculty Member, by Interfraternity Council, "Selected as one of ISU's most outstanding faculty members" Fall 2006

  • Outstanding Faculty Member, by Interfraternity Council, “Selected as one of ISU’s most outstanding faculty members” Fall 2005.

  • ISU recipient of the 2005 Regents Faculty Excellence Award given by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.

  • ISU Engineers’ Week 2004 Outstanding Professor in Chemical Engineering.

  • ISU Student Chapter, The 2004 “You Make this Class Bearable Award,” “In appreciation for his effort in undergraduate instruction, as chosen by his student.”

  • 2003 ISU Student Affairs Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Service To Students and Support of Division of Student Affairs.

  • ISU Student Chapter, The 2003 “You Make this Class Bearable Award,” “In appreciation for his effort in undergraduate instruction, as chosen by his student.”

  • 2003 Outstanding Faculty Member, by Interfraternity Council, “Selected as one of ISU’s most outstanding faculty members” Fall 2003.

  • 2003 Outstanding Faculty Member, by Interfraternity Council, “Selected as one of ISU’s most outstanding faculty members” Spring 2003.

  • 2003 Kansas State Multicultural Engineering Program Appreciation Plaque, “In recoginition 3 of your accomplishments in engineering and commitment to promote the academic and intellectual development of the multicultural engineering students at Kansas State University.

  • VEISHEA 2001 Nomination as an Outstanding Faculty Member at Iowa State University.

  • 2001 NAACP Vanguard Award.

  • 2000 Iowa State University Presidential Service Award.

  • 1997 Featured in ISU commercial, “Hero.”

  • 1996 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mentor Award.

  • 1995-96 ISU Program for Women in Science and Engineering Anna Pate Mentoring Award.

  • Featured as the June Scientist in AEtna's Calendar of African American History with the 1996 theme as African Americans in Science.

  • Featured in “Revlon Presents African-American Heritage -- A Living Legend” brochure for 1996 Black History Month.

  • Engineering Student Council Outstanding Engineering Professorship in Chemical Engineering, 1995-96.

  • LAMPOS Professor of the Year Award, LAS College Honor Society, 1995-96.

  • Honorary Member Golden Key National Honor Society -- elected 1994.

  • 1994 National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Award.

  • 1994 ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching.

  • 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (1993, 1994 and 1995).

  • Award Winning Paper -- 62nd Annual National Technical Association Conference Minority Technical Student Symposium, 1990.

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