Science Teacher Workshop

The North Central Chapter provided a science teacher workshop at the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers (WAPT) meeting on Saturday, October 30, 2004.  Following is the workshop agenda and brief biographies of the instructors.  Each attendee received a course notebook with lecture notes, hands-on materials, reference materials, and a portable radiation survey meter suitable for use in the classroom. 

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WAPT Workshop W10

Nuclear Radiation for Physics Teachers

Agenda

Instructors

	Duane Hall is a retired health physicist. Duane has a BS in physics and mathematics from UW-River Falls and an MS in physics from Vanderbilt University under the Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship Program. Included was one summer of internship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Duane is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Duane began his health physics career in 1964 as Manager, Radiological Physics at the Elk River Reactor. Beginning in 1968, he spent 9 months working in Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation’s nuclear engineering department and then in 1969 moved to 3M. Here he assumed increasing responsibilities in Corporate Health Physics serving the corporate health physics needs worldwide. He was appointed Manager, Corporate Health Physics in 1996 and retired in 2000.
	Kimberly Knight-Wiegert has been a Radiation Safety Specialist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for over ten years and is currently the assistant Radiation Safety Officer. She also consulted as a Health Physicist for Zablocki VA Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2000 to 2003. Kimberly has a Health Physics degree from Lakeshore Technical College, Cleveland, Wisconsin and a Bachelors degree from Lakeland College of Wisconsin. She also has certified credits from the Radiation Safety Management Program from Black Rivers Falls, Wisconsin. Kimberly is an avid member of the Health Physics Society and the North Central Chapter.
	Mike Lewandowski is a corporate health physicist at 3M Company with responsibility for directing and supervising the use of radiation sources in 3M's domestic manufacturing facilities. Mike has a BS in physics and mathematics from UW-River Falls and a MS in health physics from Purdue University. Mike is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to joining 3M in 1997 Mike worked for Westinghouse as a radiological engineer at a transuranic radioactive waste disposal facility, for RUST Federal Services as an occupational and environmental health physicist on the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, and as a high school physics and math teacher in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
	Marc Martz is the director of radiation safety at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee since 1999. Marc has a BS in geology from Sonoma State University and is certified in comprehensive health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to 1999, Marc was the radiation safety officer at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the site of the world's first hospital-based high-energy proton therapy accelerator.
	Daniel Miron is currently the Radiation Safety Officer/Health Physicist with the Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has eleven plus years of health physics experience in the medical and research environment, most of the time within the VA Healthcare System. Mr. Miron holds a BA degree in Physics from Ripon College. Dan is an associate member of the American Board of Health Physics and a member of the Health Physics Advisory Committee of Lakeshore Technical College, Cleveland, Wisconsin.