Dr. Paul E. Dalbec

Professor Emeritus of Physics
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
E-mail: pedalbec -at- ysu.edu

Ph.D.Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 1967
M.S. Physics, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN 1959
B.S.  Physics (Cum Laude), Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1957
Other studies: MIT, Brown, University of Virginia, Youngstown State University

Academic Employment
Youngstown State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor Emeritus  1996
    Limited service teaching  Fall 1996-present
Professor  1978-96
Associate Professor  1971-78
Assistant Professor  1968-71

  • Taught all levels of physics courses and laboratories including electricity and magnetism, solid state physics, and modern physics.
  • Directed student research projects in thin film and material science studies.
  • Set up laboratory for high temperature superconductor, semiconductor, insulator, and metal thin film preparation.
  • Introduced collaborative learning techniques into physics courses.
  • Served as chair and member of many departmental, college, university and joint faculty-administration committees.
  • Local chair, Spring meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society, held at Youngstown State University in Spring 1995.
  • Faculty Improvement Leave research in electron spectroscopy and surface physics, I.R.I.S., Universite de Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium  1978-79
    • The American University, Washington, DC, Department of Physics
    Assistant Professor  1966-68

    Memberships
    American Physical Society
    MENSA
    Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society - Contact Person for YSU Chapter
     

    Research Associations

  • American Vacuum Society
  • Material Research Society
  • Associate Member, The Eitel Institute for Silicate Research, The University of Toledo
  • The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
  • Member, electron spectroscopy subcommittee E42.04, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Eastern Electron Spectroscopy Society
    • Honors
  • American Men and Women of Science
  • Who's Who in Technology
  • Who's Who in the Midwest
  • Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Emeritus Member 1997)
  • Phi Beta Delta International Scholars' Honor Society
  • Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society
  • Sigma Xi Science Honor Society
  • NATO Grant, Institute on Electron Spectroscopy, Gent, Belgium, 1972
  • YSU-OEA Faculty Service Award, Ohio Education Association, Youngstown State University Chapter, 1987, '95, '96.
  • Ohio representative, Assises de la Francophonie Americaine, Paris, France, 1990
    • Publications
    ``Some Volume Photoelectric Properties of Evaporated Gold Films in the Vacuum Ultraviolet,'' dissertation, Georgetown University, October, 1966, University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    ``Some Properties of Volume Photoelectric Emission in Gold,'' paper selected for presentation at the Physical Electronics Conference, MIT, March, 1967. Published in The Report on 27th Annual Conference Physical Electronics,
    p.~218 (1967).  Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 12, 983 (1967).

    ``Photoelectric Emission from Thin Films in the Vacuum Ultraviolet: The Ballistic Model." Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 12, 1040 (1967).

     ``Student Journals: An Existential Approach to the Teaching of Physics to the Non-Science Student." Abstract in the AAPT Announcer, December 1975 (p.~74).

    ``Microwave Powered Electrodeless Krypton Lamps in the Vacuum Ultraviolet.'' Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.  22, 586 (1977).

    ``Use of a Structured Journal in College Physics.'' Abstract in the AAPT Announcer, December 1986 (p.~91). Abstract in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.32, 62 (1987).

    Invited Talks
    ``Photoelectric Emission in Gold," Washington and Lee University,  National Bureau of Standards, University of Toledo
    ``Electron Spectroscopy,'' Youngstown State University, l'Universite de l'Etat, Mons, Belgium

    Leadership and Administrative Positions

  • President, YSU-OEA 1987-89
  • Chief Negotiator, YSU-OEA  1992-95
  • President, YSU Chapter, American Association of University Professors 1973-74
  • President, Alliance Franco-Americaine du Midwest  1994-95
  • President, Le Cercle Francais de Northeastern Ohio et Western Pennsylvania  1984-90
  • Secretary, Le Cercle Francais de Northeastern Ohio et Western Pennsylvania  1991-present

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