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Daniel Borrero

Department of Physics
Willamette University

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Daniel Borrero
Department of Physics
Willamette University
900 State St.
Salem, OR 97301
U.S.A.

Office: 503-370-6753
Fax: 503-370-6773

dborrero@willamette.edu

News

Check out the preprint of our new review paper on how the various routes to turbulence in Taylor-Couette flow can be understood via the unifying framework of dynamical systems theory.

Teaching


To read about my teaching philosophy, click here.

Department of Physics at Willamette University

Assistant Professor

Since the Fall of 2016, I have been a member of the Department of Physics at Willamette University. At Willamette, I have taught:

Department of Physics at Reed College

Visiting Assistant Professor

From 2014 to 2016, I was part of the faculty of the Physics Department at Reed College. At Reed, I taught:

School of Physics at Georgia Tech

Head Teaching Assistant

Hands On School

Between 2008 and 2011 I was Head Teaching Assistant (TA) for the Matter & Interactions sections of PHYS 2211 and PHYS 2212 at Georgia Tech. As Head TA, I was responsible for organzing the laboratory/recitation sessions and leading the team of Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistants that taught them. I was also in charge of staffing the School of Physics tutoring center where students were able to get one-on-one help and of helping faculty develop course materials throughout the semester.


Matter and Interactions is an innovative introductory physics curriculum based on the book by Chabay and Sherwood and is currently being offered at Georgia Tech as an alternative to the traditional Physics curriculum based on the book by Knight. The Matter & Interactions curriculum stresses first principles approaches to problem solving (rather than secondary formulas), the connections between microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, and the modelling of physical situations. Students are also introduced to modern physics concepts (relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.) right from the start. The course also includes an important computational component, which emphasizes scientific computing and computer visualization as an important problem solving tool for scientists and engineers.

For more information about the Matter & Interactions curriculum at Georgia Tech, as well as some interesting data on its effect on student learning, please visit the Georgia Tech Physics Education Research Group's website.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Before becoming Head TA for the Matter and Interactions sections of PHYS 2211, I was involved with a variety of lower-division Physics courses at Georgia Tech as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). These included:

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant my main responsibility was leading interactive recitation and laboratory sections for groups of 20 to 40 students. I was also tasked with helping faculty design course materials and prepare classroom demonstrations. I often prepared and conducted review sessions before examinations and delivered lectures when faculty were out of town. As GTA, I was responsible for holding office hours and giving personalized responses to student questions in person and by email and for grading their homework, quizzes, and examinations.

I have also participated in various educational outreach programs through Georgia Tech's Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) and at the Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School, which was held at the University of Buea in Cameroon. Click here for more details on these (and other) educational outreach activities that I have been a part of.

Guest Lecturer

Private Tutoring

Since 2001 I have conducted one-on-one tutoring sessions with 30+ students in Physics and Physical Science, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Spanish at the middle school, high school, and undergraduate levels.

Teaching-related Training

Courses

Seminars and Workshops


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