Baris Altunkaynak received his PhD in Physics from Northeastern University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests lie in high-energy particle physics, radio astronomy, and cosmology. Dr. Altunkaynak teaches a variety of undergraduate physics courses, has developed and taught graduate courses, and supervises the Introductory Physics Labs. He has worked to transform and modernize the introductory lab curriculum.
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Innovations in the Introductory Physics Labs
The Introductory Physics Laboratory (IPL for short) in the College of Science is one of the biggest teaching labs at Northeastern, serving about 1,300 students every term. It is supervised by professors Baris Altunkaynak, Oleg Batishchev and Paul Champion. Ron Zettlemoyer and Austin Beaudette are the electronics and instructional lab support technicians. There is a...