FACULTY VITA FORM

Name of Faculty Member: Steven H. Mellema

Name of Institution: Gustavus Adolphus College

Title or Rank: Professor Field: Physics

Earned Degrees: List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.

B.A. May 1972, Gustavus Adolphus College (physics, mathematics)

Ph.D. August 1983, Ohio University (physics)

Professional Experience: (including preK-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience):

List name, location, dates and field or function for each professional experience.

Kamil Secondary School, Pasir Puteh, Kelantan, Malaysia (1973-76) Physics and Chemistry Teacher

Ohio University, Athens, OH (1978-80) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Physics

Ohio University, Athens, OH (1983-84) Undergraduate Instructor of Physics

Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN (1986-present) Professor of Physics

Assignment: Fill in percentages for all that apply.

100 % Full-Time in Institution _____% Part-Time in Institution

_____% Assignment in Education 100% Assignment Outside Education

100% Undergraduate Assignment _____% Graduate Assignment

_____% Administration _____% Other (specify)_____________________

Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments): For Academic Year 2005-2006

List course numbers, titles, and credits for each semester. Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level.

Fall Semester:

PHY305 Experimental Modern Physics (1.0 course) undergraduate

PHY390 Quantum Mechanics (1.0 course) undergraduate

Spring Semester:

PHY102 Astronomy, Cosmology and Astrophysics (1.0 course) undergraduate

PHY370 Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physics (1.0 course) undergraduate

Interim and/or Summer Sessions: PHY210 Fortran and C++ for the Physical Sciences, (1.0 course) undergraduate

NCATE Vita

Name: Steven H. Mellema

Title: Professor of Physics

Appointment Date: February 1, 1986

1. Non-class duties – committee, responsibilities, etc.

Faculty Compensation Committee

College Budget Committee

Physics Department Colloquium Coordinator

Physics Department Computer Coordinator

2. Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Physical Society

American Association of Physics Teachers

Sigma Xi

Institute of Physics (UK)

3. Current Professional Activities

none

4. Sample Publications

A Physics Lecture for the 21^st Century, Physics Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2001, pp. 306-311

Using Physlets to Enhance Physics Teaching, Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2003)

Companion Website (and CD-ROM) for ‘College Physics 5^th Edition’, by J. Wilson and A. Buffa, Prentice Hall Ó2003, http://www.prenhall.com/wilson5/

5. Sample Papers Presented

MODELFIT: Fostering Student Understanding of Computerized Data Analysis, AAPT Announcer, Vol. 29, NO. 2 (1999) pp123-124

Low-Coherence Optical Reflectometer, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., Vol 45, No. 1 (2000), p. 999

Bilingual Physlet Pages to Aid the Language Transition in Malaysia, AAPT Announcer, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2003) p.159

6. Current Research Emphases

Physics Education

Experimental Optical Scattering