Brittney Vorndick
Instructor | Problem Solver | Advisor | Research Scientist
- Role
- Instructor of Physics at Durham Technical Community College
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Instructor of Physics
Durham Technical Community College
Aug 2016 — Present · Raleigh-Durham, NC, US
Participant in New Faculty Development Series part of AAPT-OPTYCS June 2023 Omaha, Nebraska • Developed Investigative and Computational Labs for the Calculus-based Physics courses.• Tutored students during office hours in a one-on-one or small group setting.• Advised students on academic future,~20 students per semester.• Taught in both Online and In-person format.• Utilized software or apps like Kahoot, YouTube, Excel, Camtasia, Powerpoint, Gradescope, Phyphox, and Trinket to improve instruction, course content, and labs.• Oversee adjuncts (~1 per semester) teaching physics courses.• Collaborated with colleagues in the Science and Mathematics department to improve equity and inclusive teaching practices through using a three-tier grading scheme, academic alerts, and TILTing assignments (TILT= Transparency in Learning and Teaching).• Awarded Open Education North Carolina Grant, a grant to support instructors to transition their course to using Open Education Resources for their course. Transitioned General Physics 1 & 2 to using OpenStax University Physics Textbooks, 2020• Network with physics instructors from other universities and community colleges to improve the course content.• Attended and Presented in Faculty Development through workshops, meetings, and book clubs.
Education
The University of Freiburg
German
2004 — 2005
North Carolina State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics
2007 — 2015
North Carolina State University
Masters in Nuclear Engineering, MNE, Nuclear Engineering
2007 — 2013
University of Rochester
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics
2002 — 2007
University of Rochester
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics
2002 — 2007
Skills
- Physics
- Microsoft Word
- Experimentation
- C++
- Afm
- Profilometer
- Solidworks
- Latex
- Teaching
- Mathematica
- Matlab
- Programming
- Statistics
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