Austin Community College

Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Engineering
Rio Grande Campus


News and Events

  • Two members were added to the full-time faculty this fall semester:
    Saad Eways, who was appointed Physics, Astronomy, and Engineering Department Head and Associate Professor of Engineering at the Rio Grande campus, and Jeff Bechtold, who is assigned to Northridge campus as Assistant Professor of Physics.

  • We finally have ACCNet attached to our local network , and full access to the Web in our classes and labs.

  • ACC Summer course for High Tech/Prep
    Instructional materials developed at ACC with support from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education program (DUE #9553689) are slated for field testing this summer in the ACC physics course Applied Physics 1634-sections 5673 and 5674 (lab). This special section of Physics 1634 may substituted freely for other sections of 1634 toward satisfaction of program or degree requirements. Team members for this project are ACC science faculty Paul Williams, Dean Becker, and Tom Bird. Project coordinator is Stephen Rodi. Several compensated NSF internships for the summer field trials are available for qualifying central Texas high school physics teachers. For more information see our Advanced Technology Project page or contact the Project Director and Principal Investigator Dr. Stephen Rodi at rodi@tenet.edu . You can apply for the internships by filling in and submitting the NSF Application Form .

  • New Engineering Course Offering
    Until now, ACC engineering students have had to wait until they transferred to a 4-year engineering college to take the course Mechanics of Materials, but starting next fall semester ACC Rio Grande will inaugurate one section of Engineering 2434-Mechanics of Materials . This is an important core course in the standard curriculum in several engineering specializations. It will transfer to U.T. as a specific course requirement in the degree plans in Mechanical, Civil, Architectural, Petroleum, and Aerospace engineering , and will count as an approved elective in other engineering degree plans. See the ACC-UT transfer guide.


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