Random Sampling of Teaching

• 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 14 high-energy experiments, leading 6 of them. Served as Co-Leader of Fermilab's D0 Collider Silicon Upgrade Project.
• More than 170 publications, more than 120 invited and other talks.
• More than 50 funding proposals totalling 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:
  • Four papers published, and an additional four submitted:
    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).
    N.W. Reay, Pengfei Li and Lei Bao, "Testing a new voting machine question methodology", Am. J. Phys. 76, 171 (2008).
    Lin Ding, Neville W. Reay, Albert Lee and Lei Bao, "Effects of testing conditions on conceptual survey results",, Phys. Rev. ST - Phys. Educ. Res. 4 010112 (20080.
    Lin Ding, Neville W. Reay, Albert Lee and Lei Bao, "Are we asking the right questions? Validating clicker question sequences by student interviews", Am. J. Phys. 77 643 (2009)    
  • 13 AAPT/PERC conference talks (two invited)
  • Led an invited talk session, a cracker barrel and a workshop at the two AAPT national meetings in 2009.    
  • 8 Seminars/colloquia at several universities in 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 earlier Ohio State clicker pilot study and for a recently completed NSF-funded clicker grant. We have created, validated and assessed for learning gains enough conceptually-based question sets to populate a year-long calculus-based introductory physics course.
  
  
• PI for an NSF grant proposal that will be submitted in January, 2010. Our conceptual and problem solving strategies will be generalized beyond lectures into the entire introductory physics course.