AC 2007-2127: COMPUTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE AND WHAT CHANGE CAN MEAN TO COMPUTATION IN ENGINEERING COURSES.

Norman Chonacky is currently the editor in chief of Computing in Science and Engineering, a joint publication of the American Institute of Physics and the IEEE-Computer Society. He is a retired physicist who has spent his career split evenly between being a physics faculty member and conducting applied science and engineering research. As an academic he worked to apply computers in physics educational settings and to evaluate the impact that various methodologies had on student learning. As a research scientist he worked in optics, atmospheric physics, applied computer science, sensor engineering, instrumentation, and environmental engineering. He has been associated with, among other institutions: the Southern Connecticut State and Columbia universities; Bates, Bowdoin, and The Evergreen State colleges; the Rome Air Development Center of the U.S. Air Force; and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In addition to the ASEE, he is a currently a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society, the IEEE-Computer Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1967.