B.A. in PHYSICS, Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN
M.S. in PHYSICS,
University of
Idaho, Moscow, ID
Currently I am teaching the labs for the Intro Physics series
(PHYS107) and Modern Physic Physics (PHYS 202)
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Office : Science Center Room E128 ( Just off the Mini-Focus)
My greatest interest since coming to Wellesley has been improving the laboratory equipment to make greater use of computers. I've spent considerable time interfacing instruments in our Quantum Mechanics Laboratory to simplify data acquisition and analysis. I think that it is important that students see how computers can allow us to do experiments that were not possible (or extremely tediuous) just a few years ago. Currently I am using Matlab for writing the programs to do this.
Programming in Matla has been very rewarding for me as it allows you to use the operating system commands for tasks such as printing and file reading and writing. This makes the pragram easier for the user in addition to making it portable to other computer platforms.
I started teaching at Wellesley in 1986. Before that I worked for
Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson as an
Electronic/Instrument engineer. In 1989-90 my family and I spent a
sabbatical back at Steward Observatory's Mirror Lab where I worked on
a camera to take pictures of glass melting in the labs 30-ton
rotating oven.
In 1997-98 my family and I spent a sabatical year in Boulder, CO where I worked on a fiber-optic sensor for Hydrazine at a small chemical engineering company.
