Curriculum Vitae for John Brecht

PERSONAL  

Office Address: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48825 Home Address: 204 South Clippert Lansing, MI 48912 Email: [email protected] Date of Birth: April 15, 1975 Harvey, IL

EDUCATION  

1993 - 1997 Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Bachelor of Science -Astrophysics Graduated With Honors

1997 - Present Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Graduate Student in the Astrophysics Doctoral program

POSITIONS HELD

Fall 1998 - Summer 1999 : Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Michigan State University Title: Intern Supervisor: Dr. Gerd Kortmeyer Duties include: Planning for the future of the LearningOnline Network Developing visual tools for managing web based courses existing within the LectureOnline system (which is, in turn, part of the LearningOnline Network)

Fall 1998 - Summer 1999 : Basic Science and Remote Sensing Initiative, Michigan State University Title: Intern Supervisor: Dr. David Skole Duties include: Mosaic satellite images to form large continous images of regions in the Amazon Plan and develop an educational virtual walkthrough of an area of rainforest in Costa Rica

Summer 1998 :SRI International Title: Intern Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Gordin Duties included: Investigating tools to be used to interactively present satellite data depicting tropical forest scenes within a web based environment in such a way as to promote self-direct Planning content and functionality of a game oriented, interactive environment, meant to teach about ecological issues in the Amazon Designing a web based lesson in atmospheric physics

1997 - 1998 : Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Title: Teaching Assistant Supervisor: Dr. Wolfgang Bauer Duties included: Supervising a help room for a web based physics course Editing course content Supervising an online chat room that served as a secondary help room for the course

1996 - 1997 : Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Title: Programmer Supervisor: Dr. Wolfgang Bauer Duties included: Developing Java applets demonstrative of content presented in an online physics text for undergraduates Assisted in editing of content

1994 - 1996 : Office of Lecture Demonstrations, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Title: Assistant Technician Supervisor: John McIntyre Duties included: Preparing demonstration equipment for physics lectures Designing new lecture demonstrations Creating and maintaining an online catalog of demonstrations

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

Awarded Research Experience for Undergraduates Position by the National Science Foundation – The position was in the Extragalactic Astronomy at Alabama program Member of Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematics Society Best Teaching Assistant 1998-1999 by vote of the faculty, Department of Physics and Astronomy, MSU

RESEARCH  

"Dynamical Heating in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies" - Presented at the January, 1997 meeting of the American Astronomical Society

TECHNICAL EXPEREINCE  

Languages: Java, HTML, VRML, FORTRAN, C++ Major software titles: VisualCafe, JBuilder, 3DStudioMax, Dreamweaver, Cosmoworlds, Apache Web Server w/ JServ, RealProducer, ERDAS IMAGINE, MS Office OS's: Windows 95,98,NT ; IRIX, UNIX, LINUX, MacOS Miscellaneous: I'm confident with multimedia oriented perhipherals, including video and audio capture and have some expereince troubleshooting an NT network

REFERENCES

Dr. Wolfgang Bauer Michigan State University National Superconducting Cylotron Laboratory East Lansing, MI 48825 (517)333-6326 [email protected]

Dr. Douglas Gordin SRI International Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650)859-5079 [email protected]

Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University Department of Science and Mathematics Education East Lansing, MI 48825 (517)432-5468 [email protected]

Mr. John McIntyre Michigan State University Department of Lecture Demonstrations, Department of Physics and Astronomy East Lansing, MI 48825 (517)353-4438 [email protected]

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