Department/School:

Department of Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Arizona State University
Box 875706
Tempe, AZ 85287-5706

Home Page:

http://www.eas.asu.edu/~roedel/

Email:

r.roedel@asu.edu

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Engineering

Electrical Instrumentation

Wave Phenomena for Electrical Engineers

Quantum Mechanics for Engineers

Senior Capstone Design Project

Optical Processes in Semiconductors

Solid State Physics for Engineers

Atomic Diffusion in Semiconductors

Heterojunctions and Superlattices


Featured Materials:

Full Interview Transcript

Content Lessons:

Catapulting a Squash Ball

Designing an Electrical
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Professor Roedel has always strived for balance between research and teaching activities. Recently, he has become involved curriculum reform issues, active learning strategies, and technology enhanced education. He is one of the coPIs in the NSF sponsored Foundation Coalition (which includes Alabama, Rose-Hulman, and Texas A&M, as well as ASU) where he has been part of a team responsible for developing an integrated first year program in engineering, physics, and calculus, and upper division integrated engineering coursework. On the research side, he has been involved in semiconductor research for almost twenty years, first with silicon, then with compound semiconductor materials, and now with silicon again. While on sabbatical leave from ASU in 1998-1999, he worked at Lawrence Semiconductor Research Labs, in Tempe, AZ, where he was trained in epitaxial crystal growth. He is currently engaged in collaborative research with Lawrence through an NSF STTR program. At ASU, he was the recipient of an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984. He has received the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award three times, and was named the ASU Professor of the Year for 1999-2001. He is the author or co-author of forty publications and has roughly fifty presentations, two book chapters, and two patents in the fields of semiconductor characterization and engineering education. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, the Electrochemical Society, and the American Physical Society.


Selected Publications:

Buckner, B.D. and R.J. Roedel. “Computation of Photon Recycling Effects on Carrier Distribution.” In review, J.Math.Phys.

Rhoads, T.R., R.J. Roedel and S. El-Ghazaly. “The Wave Concepts Inventory—A Cognitive Instrument Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.” Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education (FIE) Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999.

Roedel, R. J., D. Allee, R.B. Doak, S. Duerden and J. Garland. “Novel Projects that Integrate Freshman Engineering with Second Semester Physics, Calculus, and English.” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.

Yun, M., A. Turner, R.J. Roedel and M.N. Kozicki. “Novel Lateral Field Emission Device Fabricated on Silicon-on-Insulator Material.” Journal of Vac. Sci. Technol. B 17, no. 1 (1999).

Roedel, R.J., S. El-Ghazaly and J.T. Aberle. “An Integrated Upper Division Course in Electronic Materials and Electromagnetic Engineering – 'Wave Phenomena for Electrical Engineers'.” Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education (FIE) Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 1998.

Roedel, R.J., T.R. Rhoads, S. El-Ghazaly and E. El-Sharawy. “The Wave Concepts Inventory—An Assessment Tool for Electrical Engineering Courses.” Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education (FIE) Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 1998.

Alford, T.L., A.E. Bair, Z. Atzmon, L.M. Stout, S.G. Balster, D.K. Schroder, R.J. Roedel. ”Heteroepitaxial Si1-x-yGexCy Films on (100) Si Substrates for Future Low-Power Applications.” Thin Solid Films 270, no. 632 (1995).

Roedel, R.J., W. West, T.S. Lee, D. Davito and R. Adams. “The Fabrication of Ga1-xAlxAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Junction Transistors for Rapid Material Analysis.” IEEE Trans. Semi. Mfg. 8, no. 1 (1995).

Recommended Books on Teaching and Teaming:

Johnson, David W., Roger T. Johnson, and Karl A. Smith. Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom. Edina, MN: Interaction Book Company, 1991.

Schlossberger, Eugene. The Ethical Engineer. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

Scholtes, Peter R. The Team Handbook. Madison, WI: Joiner Associates, 1992.