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Name:
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Daniel V. Schroeder |
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Department/Program:
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Physics
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Status:
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Full-time contract |
Education
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Your highest degree earned, its concentration/emphasis,
institution, year earned:
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Degree
Concentration/emphasis
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PhD - Physics |
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Institution
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Stanford University
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Year
Earned
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1990 |
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Certifications/licenses you currently hold:
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Teaching Experience
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How
many years you have been teaching at Weber State
University:
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10 years
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Your
total years of teaching (including those at Weber State
University):
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13 years
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From 1997–2003, what are
examples of your most significant teaching developments,
innovations, etc.
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Developed a new Honors course, “Energy, Entropy, and
Everything.”
Added computational components to Physics 3500 (Analytical
Mechanics) and Physics 2740 (Introductory Modern Physics),
as I taught these courses for the first time.
Supervised a number of students doing guided reading
projects and seminar presentations in theoretical physics.
Topics have ranged from general relativity to particle
physics to quantum computing.
Redesigned several previously taught courses to fit the
semester calendar, and made increased use of the web in most
of my courses. |
Research, Scholarship, Creative Activities
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From 1997–2003, what are examples of your most significant
research, scholarship, or creative activities?
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An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Addison-Wesley, 2000),
422 pages.
Instructor’s Solutions Manual to An Introduction to Thermal
Physics (Addison-Wesley, 2001), 344 pages.
“A different approach to introducting statistical
mechanics,” with Thomas A. Moore, American Journal of
Physics 65, 26-36 (1997).
Review of Atmospheric Thermodynamics by Craig Bohren and
Bruce Albrecht, American Journal of Physics 68, 1159-60
(2000).
“The undergraduate thermal physics course: Who should take
it and why?” Invited talk delivered at the Gordon Research
Conference on Research and Physics Education, Plymouth, NH,
13 June 2000.
“Feynman diagrams for undergraduates.” Invited talk
delivered at the Gordon Research Conference on Research and
Physics Education, South Hadley, MA, 12 June 2002.
Educational software for thermal physics: Ising (a
simulation of a magnetic system) released September 2002;
Molecules (a simulation of interacting particles and phase
transformations) to be released late fall 2002. |
Public
Service
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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)
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Frequent referee and associate editor (i.e., editorial board
member) for American Journal of Physics.
Vice president of Idaho-Utah Section of the American
Association of Physics Teachers.
(See above for most significant presentations.) |
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