2016-2017 Physics Faculty Annual Report

2016-2017 PHYSICS FACULTY ANNUAL REPORT

Summarize your activities for the period May 8, 2016 through May 7, 2017. Respond concisely in each category, indicating “NONE” in categories with no activity.

Please return it two weeks after receiving the student perception of instruction (SPI) reports. The deadline will be announced once the SPIs are distributed.

NAME:

RANK:

DATE:

I. Teaching Activities

A. Classroom Instruction

List regularly scheduled courses taught in this reporting period. Add more rows within the table as needed.

Term / Course Number / Course Title / Enrollment / Contact Hours

a)Are your syllabi and end-of-term course packs available on the Department’s intranet?

☐YES
☐NO

b)Comment and provide context for the SPI results you received for each course listed in I.A, as well as the grade distribution in each regularly scheduled course you taught.

c)Have you requested a peer evaluation during the reporting period? If you have, please attached it to this report.

☐YES
☐NO

B. Directing Graduate Students

a)List all MS thesis and PhD dissertation supervisions for this reporting period. Add more rows within the table as needed.

Student Name / Level / Degree Program / Project Title / Statement of Progress

b)List all graduate directed research and independent study supervisions for this reporting period. Add more rows within the table as needed.

Student Name / Level / Degree Program / Nature of Supervision / Project or Study Title

c)List all publications, award, and conference presentations of graduate students under your supervision during the reporting period. Indicate your students in the list of authors with asterisks.

Please include authors, publication title, journal reference or conference information or award information

1. M. D. Smart and G. E. Expert, New theory of everything, Phys. Rev. Z, vol. 314, p. 159-265 (2016). –SAMPLE

C. Directing Undergraduate Students

a)List all Honors in the Major thesis supervisions during the reporting period.

Student Name / Major / Thesis Title / Presentation Date

b)List all undergraduate directed research and independent study supervisions during the reporting period.

Student Name / Level / Degree Program / Nature of Supervision / Project or Study Title

c)List all publications, awards, and conference presentations of undergraduate students under your supervision during the reporting period. Indicate your students in the list of authors with asterisks.

Please include authors, publication title, journal reference or conference information or award information

1. M. D. Smart and G. E. Expert, New theory of everything, Phys. Rev. Z, vol. 314, p. 159-265 (2016). –SAMPLE

D. Curriculum & Course Development

a)Explain any major course revisions, including laboratory, that you have introduced.

b)Explain any innovative new courses that you have introduced or taught.

c)List all pedagogical articles, textbooks, and laboratory manuals you have authored or produced during the evaluation period.

Please include authors, publication title and reference, nature of the product, etc

1. M. D. Smart and G. E. Expert, New theory of everything, Phys. Rev. Z, vol. 314, p. 159-265 (2016). –SAMPLE

d)List all web-based courses and materials you have developed during the reporting period.

Please include authors, publication title and reference, nature of the product, etc

E. Grants & Contracts Supporting Teaching

a)List all grants to support teaching awarded during the reporting period. Add more tables as needed.

New Award?
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Sponsor
Grant number
Beginning and End Dates
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

b)List all proposals to support teaching awarded during the reporting period.

Status
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Sponsor
Proposed Duration
Date submitted
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

F. Supplemental Instruction

a)List all student advising not already reported B or C above.

Student Name / Level / Degree Program / Nature of Supervision / Other Information

b) If help sessions for students were conducted during the reporting period, explain.

c)If teaching outside a structured course took place during the reporting period, explain.

d)List all memberships of thesis and dissertation committees.

Student Name / Level / Degree Program / Your Role

e)If you coordinated multi-section classes or laboratories, explain.

G. Other

List all reviews or articles, books, presentations in conferences, organization of conferences or workshops, and participations in conferences or workshops related to teaching.

Please include authors, title, nature of the product or participation, etc

II. Research

1. Scholarly Work

a)List all papers published or accepted in journals listed in ISI Web of Science during the reporting period.

Please include authors, title, journal reference, DOI (if available)

1. M. D. Smart and G. E. Expert, New theory of everything, Phys. Rev. Z, vol. 314, p. 159-265 (2016). DOI: 10.111/PhysRevZ.314.159 –SAMPLE

b)List all books or chapters published during the reporting period.

Please include authors, title, publisher, ISBN, etc

1. A. B. Supersmart, The Spherical Cow Approximation (Dairy University Press, Greenfield, 2017). ISBN: 977-0474747259 –SAMPLE

c)List all other publications during the reporting period.

Please include authors, publication title, reference

1. E. T. Verysmart and H. G. Evenmore, Room-temperature superconductors, arXiv:0705.001 (preprint). –SAMPLE

d)How many citations did you receive during the reporting period? Indicate source.

e)List all articles submitted to refereed journals (but not yet accepted for publication or published) during the reporting period.

Please include authors, title, journal, status

1. T. D. Knowsall, Latest results on quantum teleportation. Submitted to Nature Communications (December 2016). – SAMPLE

f)List all contributed presentations in national or international conferences and workshops given during the reporting period.

Please include authors, title, event, location, date

1. M. Student and N. Professor, What we did last summer, APS March Meeting (New Orleans, LA, March 2017). – SAMPLE

g)List all invited conference and workshop presentations given during the reporting period.

Please include title, event, organizer, location, date

1. Z. W. Young, Lots of new data, International Conference of Assistant Professors, American Association of New Faculty (Orlando, FL, April 2017).– SAMPLE

h)List all invited seminars given at other research institutions during the reporting period.

Please include title, institution, date

1. B.I.G. Shot, Why is the sky blue?, colloquium, Department of Physics, University of New Horizon (Bigskye, MT, August 2016). –SAMPLE

i)List all patents awarded during the reporting period.

Please include inventors, title, country, number, date

1. C. Lightweight and D. Heavyweight, Systems and methods for determining atomic masses, US Patent No. 3,333,333. Awarded on October 1st, 2016.– SAMPLE

j)List all patent filings during the reporting period.

Please include inventors, title, country, date, status

1. C. Lightweight and D. Heavyweight, Systems and methods for determining atomic numbers, US Patent. Filed on September 1st, 2016. – SAMPLE

B. Research Grants & Contracts

a)List all grants and contracts awarded to you as PI or Co-PI during the reporting period.

New Award?
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Sponsoring Agency
Grant number
Beginning and End Dates
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

b)List all research proposals submitted during the reporting period.

Status
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Sponsor
Proposed Duration
Date submitted
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

c)List all internal awards received as PI or Co-PI during the reporting period.

New Award?
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Sponsor
Proposed Duration
Date submitted
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

d)List all participations in external grants and contracts as non-PI or non-Co-PI during the reporting period.

Status
Title of Project
Principal investigator
Co-PIs
Your role
Sponsor
Proposed Duration
Date submitted
Total $ Value of Award
$ Amount credited to you
Percentage credited to you
Other information

- Additional item (required by the College of Sciences): Briefly describe the impact of your work from previous years on this evaluation period.

III. Service

A. Service to the Department

a)List and explain your leadership and contributions in departmental committees during the reporting period.

b)List and explain any oversight of major departmental facilities during the reporting period.

c)List and explain other non-assigned activities such as recruitment, advising, and departmental governance during the reporting period.

B. Service Outside the Department

List and explain all service on College and University committees and any involvement in interdisciplinary and interdepartmental activities during the reporting period.

- Additional item (required by the College of Sciences): Did you attend any commencement ceremony during the evaluation period?

☐YES
☐NO

C. Service to the Profession

List all service to the profession during the reporting period (e.g., review of scholarly publications or conference proceedings; service as officer or committee member of professional organizations; service on review panels; chairing of conference sessions; organization of conferences, workshops, and technical sessions).

D. Service to Elementary and Secondary Schools

List and explain all outreach efforts to K-12 schools during the reporting period.

E. Service to the Central Florida Community

List and explain all outreach efforts and services to the Central Florida community during the reporting period.

F. Service to Industries

List and explain all service to industry during the reporting period.

G. Extensive Outreach Activities

List all others extensive outreach activities during the reporting period not already included in A-F.

IV. Other

If you were assigned duties not covered in Sections I, II, and III, provide a separate description of your activities, as instructed by the department chair.

- Additional item (required by the College of Sciences): Briefly describe the value of your main accomplishments during the reporting period in a language accessible to the public. Include a description of any honors or awards won by you or your students.

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