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Michael Huster was raised in southern California and majored in physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. After a two-year post-doctoral position at MIT, Dr. Huster worked in industry designing the next generation of sonar for the Navy. During that time, he participated in a number of at-sea tests. He taught at Simpson University in Redding, California from 2000 to 2010, and at Nyack College from 2011 to 2014. He has taught physics, physical science and astronomy.
Michael's main hobby is international folk dancing. He and his wife love to travel. They have visited Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia, Paraguay, Jordan, and a number of other countries. He has visited all 50 states and many National Parks.
Education
- Ph.D., Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Pennsylvania
- M.S., Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Physics, University of California - Santa Barbara
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PHYS 211L - General Analytical Physics I Lab
PHYS 212L - General Analytical Physics II Lab
PHYS 312 - Optics Lab
PHYS 364 - Modern Physics Lab
- Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA. July 2014 - Present. Director of laboratories for the physics majors.
- Nyack College, Nyack and Manhattan NY. January 2012 - June 2014. Professor of Physics.
- Simpson University, Redding CA. September 2000 - January 2010. Associate Professor of Physics.
- Leidos Inc. (Formerly AETC, Inc.) Member of the Technical Staff, and Program Manager. To December 2000. Program manager for Navy sonar development subcontracts. Developed and specified algorithms for environmentally adaptive sonar control, broadband classification, non-Gaussian processing, beamforming, and array shape compensation for towed array sonar systems. Conducted applied research in physical oceanography.
- Massachusetts Insititute of Technology Post-doctoral studies, Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions.