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31 Oct 2005 10:19:55 AM |
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Careers in Physics |
Hello!
My name is Ender Locke and I need some information concerning a
career in physics. More specifically, I am searching for information
about the position of a professor of physics. There are several
questions I need to answer, and we are required to get some of our
answers from someone in the field or with the career we are studying.
The questions I need to answer are:
1) What are the duties of a professor of physics?
2) What is the average yearly earnings at the beginning, middle, and
end of a professor of physic's career?
3)What are the educational requirements a course work needed to be a
professor of physics?
Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Any answers are
helpful.
-Ender Locke
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| User: "Randy Poe" |
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| Title: Re: Careers in Physics |
31 Oct 2005 10:35:13 AM |
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wrote:
Hello!
My name is Ender Locke and I need some information concerning a
career in physics. More specifically, I am searching for information
about the position of a professor of physics. There are several
questions I need to answer, and we are required to get some of our
answers from someone in the field or with the career we are studying.
The questions I need to answer are:
1) What are the duties of a professor of physics?
2) What is the average yearly earnings at the beginning, middle, and
end of a professor of physic's career?
I am not a professor of physics (note, no apostrophe), and
your assignment requires you to obtain your answers from
a physics professor. So I won't address your other two
questions.
However, the American Institute of Physics, which is a society
for physics teachers, seems to be a good place to find salary
data. Here is a study on median salaries in 2004:
http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/salary/salary04.htm
3)What are the educational requirements a course work needed to be a
professor of physics?
Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Any answers are
helpful.
- Randy
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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| Title: Re: Careers in Physics |
31 Oct 2005 11:14:26 AM |
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Randy Poe wrote:
However, the American Institute of Physics, which is a society
for physics teachers...
Perhaps you mean AAPT* which like many other physics related
professional organizations is under the umbrella of the AIP.
*American Association of Physics Teachers
-Sam
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| User: "PD" |
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| Title: Re: Careers in Physics |
31 Oct 2005 11:26:31 AM |
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wrote:
Hello!
My name is Ender Locke and I need some information concerning a
career in physics. More specifically, I am searching for information
about the position of a professor of physics. There are several
questions I need to answer, and we are required to get some of our
answers from someone in the field or with the career we are studying.
The questions I need to answer are:
1) What are the duties of a professor of physics?
This is a matter of negotiation with the hiring institution, but it
will predictably involve four things:
1. A teaching load in both graduate and undergraduate courses and the
mentoring of advanced students. You can expect to spend as much time
with the students involved with your research program as you do with
the students in your classes.
2. An active research program, including drawing external funding for
support of said research, some of which will be diverted to the
institution to pay for their "overhead" in managing your research and
facilities.
3. A certain amount of "service" work, including departmental and
college committees that serve one function or another, administrative
positions in the department or the dean's office or some other
university organization, or some campus-life support role such as
advising.
4. Maintenance of stature in the world-wide community in the field
where you specialize, including participation in conferences, visiting
other institutions to give seminars and colloquia, collaboration and
communication with other memmbers of the community.
2) What is the average yearly earnings at the beginning, middle, and
end of a professor of physic's career?
This is again a matter of negotiation with your insitution, and depends
strongly on the size and mission of the institution, your contribution
to the scientific stature of the department, and the depth of your
research funding.
3)What are the educational requirements a course work needed to be a
professor of physics?
On paper, you generally need a terminal degree in the subject area,
either a masters or a doctorate, depending on the position sought. In
physics, it is rare that someone gets a professorship without
completing a doctorate. In the rare cases otherwise, it is almost
always the case that the candidate has established some stature in the
field through some other channel, such as a prominent role in industry.
In reality, your appointment will depend less on paper than on what is
said about you in references -- that is, by your reputation. If you
have no reputation or a poor one, it is exceedingly unlikely you will
be appointed regardless of your paper qualifications. Such reputations
are usually based on post-doctoral research work, essentially a
temporary appointment designed just for that purpose.
Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Any answers are
helpful.
-Ender Locke
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| User: "Gregory L. Hansen" |
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| Title: Re: Careers in Physics |
31 Oct 2005 03:25:45 PM |
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In article <1130775595.793568.20280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<EnderLocke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
My name is Ender Locke and I need some information concerning a
career in physics. More specifically, I am searching for information
about the position of a professor of physics. There are several
questions I need to answer, and we are required to get some of our
answers from someone in the field or with the career we are studying.
The questions I need to answer are:
1) What are the duties of a professor of physics?
2) What is the average yearly earnings at the beginning, middle, and
end of a professor of physic's career?
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
3)What are the educational requirements a course work needed to be a
professor of physics?
A PhD plus a postdoc.
Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Any answers are
helpful.
-Ender Locke
--
"The result of this experiment was inconclusive, so we had to use
statistics." (Overheard at international physics conference)
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