Bradley Carroll

Name:	Bradley W. Carroll
Department/Program:	Physics
Status:	Full-time contract

Education

Your highest degree earned, its concentration/emphasis, institution, year earned:
Degree Concentration/emphasis	Ph.D., Astrophysics
Institution	University of Colorado, Boulder
Year Earned	1981
Certifications/licenses you currently hold:	Standard Secondary Teaching Credential, State of California

Teaching Experience

How many years you have been teaching at Weber State University:	18 years
Your total years of teaching (including those at Weber State University):	19 years
From 1997–2003, what are examples of your most significant teaching developments, innovations, etc.

1997 - Created new honors course, “Physics in the Plays of Tom Stoppard.” 1998 - Wrote description of classroom hands-on activities (35 pages) and revised student lecture notes handout (100 pages) for Phsx 1360 (Principles of Physical Science, for pre-service elementary teachers). 1999 - Created materials for new course, Phsx 3540 (Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves). 2001 - Presented two workshops, “E3: Exploring Europa’s Environment,” for Utah Science Teachers Association at BYU. 2002 - Member of panel discussion on “Scientist Teachers and Science Educators: Seeking Common Ground on Teaching and Learning Issues” at NSTA Western Regional Convention in Salt Lake City. 2003 - Free copies of CD-Rom software, Explorations of Physical Science: Simulation Library Vol. 2, by Bradley W. Carroll and Farhang Amiri (published by Physics Curriculum & Instruction) distributed to Utah high-school teachers.

Research, Scholarship, Creative Activities

From 1997–2003, what are examples of your most significant research, scholarship, or creative activities?

1997 - Published Instructor's Solutions Manual for An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics,Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, 274 pp, Addison Wesley.
1997 - Published "A Survey of the Introductory Physics Course," B. W. Carroll, in Conference on the Introductory Physics Course, J. Wilson (ed.), John Wiley & Sons.
1998 - Awarded USHE Technology and Distance Education Initiative proposal, “An Interactive Conceptual Physics Course Designed for On-Demand, Remote Access” (PI Sid Rudolph, University of Utah; Co-Principal Investigators Farhang Amiri and Bradley W. Carroll (WSU), Dorian Hatch and Phillip Dukes (BYU). WSU portion funded for $127,285.00.
1999 - With Dr. Dale Ostlie, completed revisions for 5th printing of An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics and the 2nd printing of the book’s Instructor’s Solutions Manual
2002 - CD-Rom software, Explorations of Physical Science: Simulation Library Vol. 2, by Bradley W. Carroll and Farhang Amiri, published by Physics Curriculum & Instruction. The software consists of 101 interactive physics animations and simulations.

Public Service

From 1997-2003, what are examples of your most significant professionally related service to the community (member/officer in professional organizations, consultant, presentations/speeches, etc)

1998 - Refereed paper, “A Model for QPOs in CVs Based on Boundary-Layer Oscillations” by Collins et al., for The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
1998 - Presented “Physics Simulations Using Macromedia’s Director” (Farhang Amiri co-author) at the Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in New Orleans.
1998 - Gave talk, “Self-Organized Criticality: Applications to Astrophysics,”at the Four Corners Sectional Meeting of the American Physical Society at BYU; abstract published in The Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 43, #10, 2150, 1998.
2000 - Gave talk, “Physics Animations and Simulations Using Macromedia’s Director 7,”at the Four Corners Sectional Meeting of the American Physical Society at The University of Arizona; abstract published in The Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 44, #9, 6, 2000 with Farhang Amiri as co-author.
2000 - Presented 2000 Cortez Lecture, “An Invitation to Wonder,” for WSU Honors Program.
2001 - Presented poster paper (with Dale Ostlie co-author), “Bringing Pulsating Stars into the Physics Classroom,” at the 197th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
2002 - Gave invited talk, “Five Remarkable Women at the Crossroads of Astronomy,” at ALCON 2002, the national convention of the Astronomical League in Salt Lake City.
2002 - Gave invited talk, “T + 25: The Challenges Ahead for Physics Education,” at the annual meeting of the Four Corners section of the APS in Salt Lake City.
2003 - Gave invited talk, “The ‘Out’ in Public Outreach at Weber State University,” at the Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in New Orleans.