David Ingram's Wiki

— David Ingram 2009/01/15 23:19

Hello, welcome to my website. If you want to contact me, my e-mail is ingram@ohio.edu.

This is my CV dci23.pdf

I am a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, I am also the Director of the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio University. My research areas are broadly Condensed Matter and Applied Nuclear Physics. As director of the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory I coordinate the use of our facilities with internal and external users. We are well know in the nuclear physics community as being able to provide pulsed beams of neutrons from 0.5 - 20 MeV from a variety of targets. We have a 4.5 MV tandem accelerator that produce dc or pulsed-and-bunched ion beams from 200 keV to 20+ MeV beams of multiply charged beams up to silicon. We have neutron detector calibration techniques using time-of-flight techniques that can establish detector spectral efficiencies to 1%.

The laboratory facilities can also be used for materials analysis. We routinely perform Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS, including ion channeling analysis and Enhanced Cross-section Elastic Scattering Analysis. We also use Elastic Recoil Spectroscopy (ERS) for hydrogen isotopes, and Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). In addition to MeV ion beam analysis we also have X-ray Photo-Electron Spectroscopy (XPS) and a Scanning Auger Microprobe (SAM). These surface analysis tools are part of the W. M. Keck Thin Film Analysis Facility where we can grow materials with a variety of UHV PVD and CVD techniques and analyze the substrate and film without exposure to air.

I am currently funded to work on the detection of fissile materials with fast neutrons and gammas by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

I usually teach the calculus based physics courses to scientists and engineers, PHYS251, PHYS252, and PHYS253. This year I am also due to teach a new course “Energy in a Modern World”, PSC135. I use the LON-CAPA system for the homework and all course management for these courses. I routinely use “clickers” in my classes to find out what the students know and show them what they know.

My service roles are many. I am the chair of the Academic Honesty Hearing Committee, this is a committee set up by the Trustees to review allegations of academic misconduct against masters and doctoral graduates. Through this I have become an expert on plagiarism as well as trying to ensure that due process is given to all those charged with misconduct. The committee consists of faculty that hear the charges and the response of the students, and by the preponderance of the evidence, decide whether to dismiss the charges, recommend a rewrite, or recommend revocation of their degree. I am member of the Vision Ohio Steering Committee, and also its AQIP subcommittee. Contrary to a recent headline in the Post, the Vision Ohio is not on hold only the review of new proposals that will cost money. My other major service assignment is as a member of the General Education Assessment Committee. We are working currently on interviewing students as part of the assessment process. We have modeled this process on the one used by Richard Light of Harvard and described in his book ”Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds”. I am also chair of the University Radiation Safety Committee. I have an number of other service roles at present: UCC member, and member its ICC and its Q2S committee. I am member of an on-line course committee for the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition I have several service roles within the department including: Chair of the Tandem Accelerator Liaison Committee (TALC); Chemical Hygiene Officer and chair of the Safety Advisory Committee; member of several committees.