Teaching and students mentoring:


Classroom Teaching:



The courses I taught at UT-Dallas include

Undergraduate courses:

PHYS2325 Mechanics,

PHYS3312 Classical Mechanics,

PHYS4V89 Cosmology, PHYS1100 Fun of Physics,


Graduate courses:

PHYS5395 Cosmology,

PHYS5311 Classical Mechanics,

PHYS5391 Special Relativity,

PHYS5392 General Relativity.

PHYS5303 Math Methods for Physics III

Mustapha Ishak 2021

Teaching and mentoring awards:

I received in 2007 and 2018 the Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year from the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UTD:

2007 news article ;

2018 news article.

And the President's Teaching Excellence Award in 2021:

2021 news article.


For a detailed list of my course teaching click here.


Students mentoring:


Current Ph.D. students:

1. Eske Pederson (graduation expected in 2021).
2. Anish Agash (graduation expected in 2021).
3. Cristhian Garcia Quintero (graduation expected in 2024).
4. Leonel Medina Varela (graduation expected in 2026)

Graduated Ph.D. Students:

1. James Richardson (graduated in May 2008). Working in the corporate sector
2. Jacob Moldenhaeur (graduated in May 2010). Assistant Professor and Acting Chair at Physics Department, University of Dallas, TX.
3. Anthony Nwankwo (graduated in May 2011). Working in the corporate sector.
4. Jason Dossett (graduated in May 2013). Research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, DC
5. Michael Troxel (graduated in May 2014). Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University.
6. Austin Peel (graduated in May 2015). Postdoctoral Research Position in Astrophysics at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
7. Tharake Wijenayake (graduated in May 2016). Working as Senior Analyst in the corporate sector at Zack's Investment, Chicago, IL.
8. Ji Yao (graduated in May 2018). Working as postdoctoral research fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
9. Weikang Lin (graduated in August 2018). Working as postdoctoral research fellow at North Carolina State University.

Masters students supervised

1. Chris Allison
2. Jeffrey Scott
3. Brian Troup
4. Delilah Whittington
5. John Thompson
6. Lee Caps

  Undergraduate student supervised:

1. Katherine Morgan (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2006)
2. Lee Isaac Trawick, (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2006)
3. Sriram Nagaraj, (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2006)
4. Wendy Gartenberg, (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2007)
5. John Wilson (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2007)
6. Jason Dossett, (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2007, 2008)
7. Tan Lee, (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2008)
8. Austin Peel (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2007)
9. John Thompson (undergraduate Thesis/Research, 2008)
10. Lee Caps (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2010)
11. Thomas Griffins (Undergraduate Research Project, 2012)
12. Nathan Newton (Undergraduate Research Project, 2012)
13. Jonathan Woodbury (undergraduate Thesis/research, 2013)
14. Victor Lee (Undergraduate Research Project, 2015)
15. Joseph Burnett (Undergraduate Thesis/Research, 2015)
16. Cristhian Quintero (Undergraduate research, 2016)
17. Logan Fox (undergraduate research, Spring and Fall 2017)
18. Lindsey Rayborn (undergraduate research, Spring and Fall 2016)
19. Leonel Medina (undergraduate research, 2018)
20. Aaron Boggs (REU undergraduate research, 2019).
21. Calvin Ross (undergraduate research, 2019-2020).
21. Orion Ning (REU undergraduate research, 2020).


High-school students summer internships:

1. Tim Carlton summer 2006
2. Ray Whitside, summer 2007
3. Sid Mittal, summer 2008
4. Parker Maginley, summer 2008
5. Brandyn Lee, summer 2009
6. Scott Meesse, summer 2009
7. Genway Huang, summer 2010
8. Evan Remmele, summer 2011
9. Amelia Neild, summer 2018
10. Emily Bailey, summer 2018


This page will be completed very soon.


 
Updated by M. Ishak