Random Sampling of Teaching and Associated

• Taught beginning non-science majors through Ph.D. candidates.
• Helped establish the OSU Physics Education Research Group.
• Incorporated Physics by Inquiry into the OSU curriculum.
• Adapted high-energy research data for use by first-year KSU students.
• Converted a KSU course for non-scientists into a web-based environment with electronic audience participation.
• Ohio State (since January 2003): taught the World of Energy and many freshman engineering honors and traditional introductory physics lectures, both calculus and algebra-based.

  High Energy Physics, my previous field

• Participated in 11 high-energy experiments, leading 6 of them. Served as Co-Leader of Fermilab's D0 Collider Silicon Upgrade Project.
• more than 130 publications, more than 120 invited and other talks.
• More than 50 funding proposals returned in excess of $40 million.
• Created new physics and technology:
      
  • Measured the first statistically significant charm particle lifetimes & made the first direct measurement of Beauty lifetimes.    
  • Established limits against higher-mass neutrino oscillations, flavor-changing neutral currents, and D0 mixing in charm decays.    
  • Measured charm semileptonic and leptonic decays.    
  • Experiments discovered the Ds charm meson and the tau neutrino.    
  • Helped establish Micron Semiconductor.    
  • Initiated the first major use of FASTBUS and silicon microstrip detectors in the U.S.    
  • Facilitated silicon upgrade projects for the D0 Collider.

  Physics Education Research, my current field:

• PER publications and Presentations:
  • One paper published at AJP: N.W. Reay, L. Bao, P. Li and G. Baugh, "Toward the effective use of voting machines in physics lectures, Am. J. Phys. 73, 554 (2005). Another has been accepted and a third soon will be submitted.    
  • More than ten AAPT/PERC conference talks, one of which was invited.    
  • Seminars/colloquia at several universities during 2004 through 2008.    
  • Clicker awareness session at the 2006 AAPT National Conference.    
  • Workshop at the Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) 2005 Conference.    
  • Ohio State TELR Awareness Session (2005),    
  • Invited talk at the 2004 "Symposium on Physics Research and Education", Nanjing, China.
  
  
• Created a new form of introductory physics laboratory in which students simulate experiments using VPython, and then actually perform the experiments.
  
  
• PI both for an Ohio State clicker pilot study and for a 2006-2009 NSF-funded clicker grant. The goal is to develop and assess enough conceptually-based question sets to populate the year-long calculus-based introductory physics courses.
  
  
• PI for another recently-submitted NSF proposal to use clickers as well to improve problem solving skills. Clickers could become the entire package.