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My name is Tony Zable and I am a full-time physics instructor at PCC, as well as a Faculty Co-Chair for the Physics Department. I am a passionate educator with a questionable sense of humor. I truly enjoy being in the classroom, as well as developing content for my classes. My current inspiration is to identify and establish best practices for integrating the synchronous digital content I created during the SARS-CoV-2 into the face-to-face classroom setting, in a way that will further promote effective student learning in an increasingly diverse and distracted population of learners.
Professional Background:
Located at Cascade Campus, I’m a Physics Instructor and the Faculty Department Chair for Physics. I regularly serve as a manuscript peer-reviewer for The Physics Teacher journal and occasionally publish a paper. Although I am an experimental biophysicist by background, my current research interest is physics education and the development of novel ways to teach and learn physics. I have always enjoyed confronting new professional challenges and at various stages of my career I have been a research scientist, transportation consultant, QA/process engineer, and project manager (in e-commerce web development). Currently, I teach various introductory physics courses (occasionally recording cheesy and unfortunate videos for said classes), whilst continuing to explore ways to improve class presentation and student learning of physics in the online setting.
Education:
BS, Physics/Honors, Portland State University, 1991
MS, Physics, Portland State University, 1996
PhD, Environmental Sciences & Resources: Physics, Portland State University, 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, 1997-98
Professional Links
Contact Info:
Office: 218A Jackson Hall, Cascade Campus
Zoom: https://portlandcc.zoom.us/my/drtonyz
Google Meet: azable@pcc.edu
Office Phone: 971-722-5040