NANSLO Partners / Discipline Panels

Physics Discipline Panel

Each discipline panel contains members representing a balance among the two-year and four-year schools involved in the project.  The members will participate in a two-day workshop in late spring 2011 to review the physics lab curriculum from BCcampus and Colorado Community College System and make recommendations for the RWSL equipment & kits needed to support it at CCCS. They will work together on an ongoing basis during the project via the project website and panel listserv. Each term the panel will convene by conference call to review student outcomes for those enrolled in the new online lab at CCCS and make recommendations for changes to it for the next term. The members will also provide recommendations for expanding the project to include other institutions thereby establishing the North American Network of Science Labs Online.

British Columbia

Takashi Sato
Chair Department of Physics and Applied Science
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
takashi.sato@kwantlen.ca

Takashi Sato has been with Kwantlen Polytechnic University since 1996 and works in a variety of capacities including teaching physics and astronomy courses. Tak has chaired the Phyics department as well as the university Senate and has served on external bodies including the Executive committee of the BC section of AAPT and the Education Committee of the Canadian Astronomical Society. Sato has previously served on the curricular review of the physics portions of RWSL and is currently working on developing a new program in applied physics and instrumentation at Kwantlen. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia.
 

Colorado Community College System

Lynnette Hoerner
Faculty
Red Rocks Community College
lynnette.hoerner@rrcc.edu

Lynnette Hoerner has served as the Astronomy Lead and an instructor of astronomy and physics at Red Rocks Community College for four years.  She is currently the Discipline Chair for Astronomy for the Colorado Community College System and has been active in discussions of curriculum issues and curriculum development for this system for some time.  Previously, she served as an adjunct faculty member at Arapahoe Community College, Front Range Community College and Colorado Community College Online.  Hoerner received her B.S. in Engineering Physics from Colorado School of Mines and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jesse Huguley
Instructor, Physical Science
Colorado Community College Online, Arapahoe Community College
jesse.huguley@cccs.edu

Jesse Huguley has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Auburn University; an M.S. in Physical Science- Astrophysics from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He began his career on the Apollo Moon Landing program, and went on to support the initial build and test of the Space Shuttle.  He then joined Martin Marietta following the initial flight of the Shuttle where he served as Project Engineer for the MX Peacekeeper ICBM.  He retired from what is now Lockheed Martin following his support of the maiden flight of the Atlas V.  Since retirement, he has taught Science at CCCOnline and Arapahoe Community College for over 9 years.  He designed the original Physics 105 course for CCCOnline and has contributed to numerous improvements in the Physics and Astronomy courses offered at CCCOnline and ACC.
 

Satellite Campuses

Mohamed Chakhad
Instructor, Physics/Math/Engineering
Laramie County Community College
mchakhad@lccc.wy.edu

Mohamed Chakhad is an instructor of physics, mathematics, and engineering at Laramie County Community College. Besides teaching a wide spectrum of courses that span three disciplines, he advises numerous students seeking a degree in engineering science. Previously, he was an assistant instructor in physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Chakhad received his B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Mary Washington and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Irene Grimberg
Associate Research Professor
Montana State University-Bozeman
grimberg@montana.edu

Dr. Bruna (Irene) Grimberg, MSU. Dr. Grimberg is an Associate Research Professor at the Science and Math Resource Center, MSU. She brings expertise in: physics, science education), online teaching and learning, and in the design and implementation of in-service science teacher’s professional development programs using a blended model that combines face-to-face and online interactions for their delivery. Dr. Grimberg has numerous research publications and national and international conferences presentations in the areas of elementary students’ science learning, online science discourse analysis, and quantum mechanics.

Todd Ruskell, Ph.D.                  

Senior Lecturer in Physics         
Articulation Coordinator
Colorado School of Mines
truskell@mines.edu

Todd Ruskell has been a member of the physics faculty at Colorado School of Mines since 1999. His primary responsibility in that role is teaching the introductory calculus-based physics sequence. He has been responsible for evaluating incoming physics transfer requests since 2002. In 2010 Ruskell, along with one other individual, was appointed articulation coordinator. In that role he is primarily responsible for establishing individual institution-to-institution articulation agreements for students transferring from Colorado’s two-year institutions to Colorado School of Mines. He received his B.A. in physics from Lawrence University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona.

Tim Slater
Professor
University of Wyoming
timslaterwyo@gmail.com

Timothy Slater has been a professor at the University of Wyoming (UW) since 2008 where he holds the Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Chair for Science Education. He has held a number of elected offices in professional societies including education officer for the American Astronomical Society, Board of Directors for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and councilor at large for the Society of College Science Teachers. He served on the Editorial Board of the AstronomyEducation Review, multiple terms as chairman of the Astronomy Education Committee of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and represented the United States as the initial National Chairman of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. Slater earned his Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of South Carolina, his M.S. in astrophysics from Clemson University, and two bachelors' degrees (science education and physical science) from Kansas State University.

Robert Wilson
Adjunct Instructor
Great Falls College Montana State University
bobwilson.msu@gmail.com

Robert Wilson has taught on-line lab based physics and electricity courses at Montana State University since 1996.  He is Professor Emeritus, San Bernardino Valley College, (1965 – 2002). At the college he served as Department Chair in Physics and Astronomy and was Director of the Beattie Planetarium.  While there he co-developed a successful grant establishing the Science Learning Center, providing an array of tools and services to insure student success in science. He provided the initial leadership as its Director for the three years prior to his retirement. In 1995 he pioneered the first on-line physics course that included an at-home lab. Wilson received his B.S. in physics and M.A. in mathematics at California State University, Long Beach.