Darryl J. Ozimek Instructor

B.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2000)
M.S., Kansas State University (2004)

Physics Education

My love for teaching physics started in high school by helping my fellow classmates learn physics. I started my career in secondary education as a substitute physics teacher while continuing my own education in physics. I continued my professional career as a Pennsylvania certified teacher where I taught Physics, Practical Science, and Astronomy at Cambridge Springs High School in Pennsylvania.

I did my graduate work in physics at Kansas State University while strengthening my teaching experience as a teaching assistant and instructor. At KSU I conducted research in physics education focusing on how students learn, retain, and transfer their trigonometry knowledge to their physics courses. We observed transfer of learning from both traditional and contemporary models of transfer. We also found that prompting students with various levels of specificity result in both negative and positive transfer from trigonometry to physics.

At Duquesne University, I teach a variety of courses and labs. I also teach during the summers and spent last summer supervising an undergraduate student working on physics education research for their honors thesis. I also hope to soon design and implement a new and unique curriculum in my CORE Science-Physics course.

Undergraduate Teaching

CORE 173 - CORE Science-Physics (fall, spring, & summer semesters)

PHYS 167 - Technology and Society (summer semester)

PHYS 201 - Physics for the Life Sciences I (summer semester)

PHYS 201L - Physics for the Life Sciences I Laboratory (fall semester)

PHYS 202 - Physics for the Life Sciences II (summer semester)

PHYS 202L - Physics for the Life Sciences II Laboratory (spring & summer semesters)

PHYS 212L - General Analytical Physics II Laboratory (summer semester)