TIMOTHY D. USHER

http://physics.csusb.edu/~tusher/

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

·  Ph.D., Physics; 1989; University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Advisor: Prof. Charles P. Poole, Jr.

·  B.S., Applied Physics, Physics, Math minor, Teaching certification; 1981; Appalachian State University, N.C.

 
APPOINTMENTS

· Professor (2000-present), Associate Professor, (1995-2000), Assistant Professor (1990-1995): California State University San Bernardino, Physics Department.

· Fulbright Scholar to Ireland 2008-2009. Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

· Visiting Professor: 1999-2000, (sabbatical leave) North Carolina State University, Materials Research Center.

 

RESEARCH INTEREST: Condensed matter physics, multiferroics, materials physics, smart materials, ferroelectrics, piezoelectric materials, robotics, quantum computing, magnetic resonance, x-ray diffraction studies, finite element computer modeling, fuel cells, and electronics.

 

TEACHING INTEREST: I have taught over 40 different preparations. Ranging from advanced quantum mechanics to high school physical science. I was the primary architect on the applied physics option at CSUSB. I was also served on the committee to create the first engineering program at CSUSB, Computer Engineering. I was also one of the two co-inventors of the first intellectual properties commercially licensed by CSUSB. The system is called NI-ELVIS and is the first system of its kind for teaching electronics. More information can be found at http://physics.csusb.edu/~tusher/elvis/elvis_main.html.

 

COMMERCIAL INTERST: I continue to explore commercially viable technologies and interactions with government and the private sector.

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

  1. CSUSB Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities Award 2016.
  2. NSF-CREST, Award Number: 1345163, PI, 2014 – present.
  3. Dept. of Defense Contract No. W911NF-12-1-0080, PI, 2011 – 2014.
  4. NASA-CIPAIR grant, PI, 2011 – 2016.
  5. California Space Grant Consortium grant “STEM Workforce Development with HSI Community College,” PI, 2012.
  6. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland 2008-2009.
  7. Fulbright representative to the Seminar on the European Union and NATO, Brussels Belgium, 2009. I was among a select group of Fulbright Scholars chosen from all the Fulbright Scholars in Europe.
  8. California Space Grant Consortium “STEM workforce development at a HIS,” PI, April, 2007.
  9. Department of Transportation, “Degradation processes in hydrogen fuel cells,” PI, May, 2007.
  10. California Space Grant Consortium - Foundation, “Nafion membrane studies” PI, September, 2006.
  11. Boeing NASA-Systems, Contract, PI,  August, 2005.          
  12. Department of Defense (DOD), “Piezoelectrics”, PI, June, 2005.    
  13. Golden Apple Award nominee, CSUSB University wide teaching award, 2004.
  14. Outstanding Professional Achievement award for the CSUSB College of Natural Sciences, May, 2004.
  15. National Science Foundation (NSF) "Partnership for Computer Engineering Excellence (PACE3)", senior personnel, September, 2003.
  16. Achievement in Technical Ingenuity award from the Inland Empire Economic Partnership “University Category Finalist” The Inland Empire is an area of Southern California with a population of over 3.3 million people. March 2003.
  17. Coyote Athletics Faculty Appreciation Award, award from CSUSB student athletes, Feb. 2003.
  18. Two Department of Defense grants for student scholarships. “Undergraduate Scholarships to Conduct Research in Magnetic Resonance”, sole investigator, July 2002.
  19. NASA – Faculty Awards for Research; “High Displacement Actuator (HAD) Studies”, sole investigator. This was the first NASA grant awarded to CSUSB. January 2002.
  20. National Science Foundation – Major Research Instrumentation; “Acquisition of an electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) spectrometer for research in condensed matter, chemistry, and biology at a HIS-PUI. PI, July 2001.
  21. California State University; Course Development Grant; Quantum Computing, principal investigator, April 2001.
  22. Outstanding Instructionally Related Activity, School of Natural Sciences, California State University. 1997/98.
  23. California State University; Instructional Development Project; Establishing a Self-Supported, Nationally Certified, Electronic Test and Measurement Site; co-director, June 1997.
  24. National Science Foundation; "An Automated X-ray Diffraction System for Undergraduate Instruction", PI, 1996.
  25. California State University; Instructional Development Project; Expanding Career Opportunities for Science Students; director, June 1996.
  26. National Science Foundation; "Instrumentation for an Introductory Electronics Course." PI, 1994.
  27. California State University; Instructional Development Project; "Prototype system for Introductory Electronics Course." co-investigator, 1993.
  28. California State University; Faculty Professional Development Summer Fellowship; Effects of X-rays on Ferroelectrics; sole investigator, Summer 1993.
  29. Research Corporation (Partners Program) Award HS-163; co-investigator, 1992.
  30. California State University; Faculty Professional Development Mini-Grant; Ferroelectric Polarization; sole investigator, 1992.
  31. Research Corporation (Cottrell College Science Grant Program) Award C-13119; Effect of x-ray irradiation on ferroelectric polarization reversal in KH2PO4, sole investigator. This was the first grant to be awarded to CSUSB from this foundation, 1991.

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

·  Over sixty professional works including invited talks at professional science conferences and publications in refereed science journals, many with undergraduate co-authors. Some work is unpublished because of national security and/or intellectual property issues.

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL, REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

 

1.     Timothy D. Usher, Kimberley R. Cousins, Douglas C. Smith, Renwu Zhang,  Eva D. Zurek, Stephen Ducharme, Sara J. Callori, Daniel P. Miller, and Paulo S. Costa  “Materials Genome Approach to Organic Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics”, International Journal of Nanotechnology (pending).

2.     Paulo S. Costa, Francisco Guzman, Kimberley Cousins, Sara J. Callori, Erika Sanchez, Paul K. Dixon, Douglas Smith, Timothy Usher, Renwu Zhang*, “Fabricating High-Quality Ultra-Thin Croconic Acid Film Using Electric Field Guidance” Journal of Applied Surface Science, (accepted).

3.     Francisco Guzman, Judy Tran, Kimberley Cousins, Paul K. Dixon, Douglas Smith, Timothy D. Usher, Renwu Zhang*, “Study of defects in croconic acid single crystals using positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy” Defect and Diffusion Forum, 373, 179 – 182, (2016).

4.     Robert N. Phalen, Kimberley Cousins, Timothy Usher, Michelle Young, Renwu Zhang, “Revising the formulization of the Narayanaswamy equation using the Adam-Gibbs theory” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 453, 59 – 65, (2016).

  1. Timothy D. Usher, Kenneth R. Ulibarri, Jr. and Gilberto S. Camargo, “Piezoelectric Microfiber Composite Actuators for Morphing Wings.” ISRN Materials Science, Article ID 189659, 2013.
  2. Donna A. Kunkel, James Hooper, Scott Simpson, Geoffrey A. Rojas,1, Stephen Ducharme, Timothy Usher, Eva Zurek, and Axel Enders, “Proton transfer in surface-stabilized chiral motifs of croconic acid.” Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, 87, 041402, 2013.
  3. Naoise Grisewood1, John Eves, Tim Usher, and Hans-Benjamin Braun, “Chiral magnetization configurations in magnetic nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interactions.” Journal of Applied Physics, 111, pp07C706, February 2012.
  4. Younghoon Kim, Ling Cai, Timothy Usher, and Qing Jiang, “Fabrication and Characterization of THUNDER Actuators – Pre-stress Induced Nonlinearity in the Actuation Response.”  Smart Materials and Structures, 18, pp7, August 2009.
  5. Tim Usher and Alec Sim, “Nonlinear Dynamics of piezoelectric high displacement actuators in cantilever mode.” Journal of Applied Physics, 98, September 2005.
  6. Tim Usher, Alec Sim, Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, Ken Ulibarri, Jr., Gilbert Camargo, Eris Naco, “Modeling and applications of new piezoelectric actuator technologies”, SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials, 5383, pp31-38, March 2004.
  7. J. A. Palmer, B. Dessent, J. F. Mulling, T. Usher, E. Grant, J. W. Eischen, A. I. Kingon, P. D. Franzon “The Design and Characterization of a Novel Piezoelectric Transducer-Based  Linear Motor”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 9, 392-398, June 2004.
  8. Tim Usher, Alic Sim, Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, Ken Ulibarri Jr., Gilbert Camargo, Eris Naco, “Modeling and applications of new piezoelectric actuator technologies”, Proceedings of the SPIE,  Smart Structures and Materials, Vol. 5383, pp. 31-38, 2004.
  9. T. D. Usher and Paul Dixon “”Physics goes practical”” American Journal of Physics, 70, January 2002.
  10. James Mulling, Tim Usher, Brian Dessent, Jeremy Palmer, David Rooker, Paul Franzon, Eddie Grant, Angus Kingon  "Load Characterization of High Displacement Piezoelectric Actuators with Various End Conditions" Sensors and Actuators A, 94, 2001.
  11. T. D. Usher  "Suppression of switchable polarization in KDP by ionizing radiation" Physical Review B, 58, August 1998.
  12. T. D. Usher  "Effects of x-ray irradiation upon switching in potassium dihydrogen phosphate"  Ferroelectrics Letters  18 (7), Aug. 1994.
  13. Deborah Schurr, T. D. Usher "High School Classroom Demonstration of Hysteresis Using Ferroelectric Materials."  Physics Teacher  September 1994.
  14. T. D. Usher and Grant A. McAuley "High-voltage MOSFET bipolar square-wave generator" Review of Scientific Instruments, 64 (7), 1993.
  15. T.D. Usher "Preliminary report on the effects of x-ray irradiation on switching in KH2PO4"; Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics, 1992.
  16. T. D. Usher, C.P. Poole, Jr. and H.A. Farach  "Ferroelectric Polarization Reversal in Potassium Dideuterium Phosphate as Monitored by Switching Current" Ferroelectrics, Vol. 120, pp 201-209. 1991.
  17. T. D. Usher, C.P. Poole, Jr. and H.A. Farach, "Ferroelectric Polarization Reversal in Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate as monitored by Switching Current"  Ferroelectrics, Vol. 110, pp 67-75. 1990.

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

 

1.      Cousins, Kimberley; Vinson, Luke; Quesada, Alejandra; Usher, Timothy; Smith, Douglas C. “Using CSD in the search for organoferroelectric crystalline compounds,” CCDC 2016 West Coast User’s Meeting, San Diego, February 9, 2016.

2.      Timothy Usher, Alec Sim, Joseph Farmer, Michael Butros “Undergraduate Research and Other Collaborations between TYCs and 4yr+ Universities” Invited Talk, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Winter Meeting, January 9 -12, 2016.

  1. Cousins, Kimberley; Vinson, Luke; Quesada, Alejandra; Usher, Timothy; Smith, Douglas C. “Using CSD in the search for organoferroelectric crystalline compounds,” CCDC 2016 West Coast User’s Meeting, San Diego, February 9, 2016.
  2. Renwu Zhang, “Study of Defects in Croconic Acid Single Crystals Using Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy”,  the 17th International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-17), , Wuhan China, Sep. 20 – 25, 2015.

5.      K. Cousins (presenting), D. Smith, T. Usher, “Investigating functional organic single crystals at the CSUSB Center for Advanced Functional Materials,” featured speaker, local section meeting (San Gorgonio Section) of the American Chemical Society. Mount St. Mary’s College, Doheny Campus, LA, CA, May 16, 2014.

6.      J.C. Farmer (presenting), A. Sim, T. Usher, “Intensive Training Academy During Winter Breaks (Winternships) at a Two-Year Hispanic Serving Institution to Prepare STEM Students for Summer Internships” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, poster, December 15-19, 2014.

  1. T.D. Usher, K. Cousins, D. Smith “Materials Research of Novel Organic Piezoelectric/Ferroelectric Compounds” Air Force Research Laboratory, Organic materials Chemistry portfolio Review, Oct 27-31, 2014.
  2. T. Usher, A. Sim, C. Farmer, and D. MacIntire  “Quality STEM Curriculum with Quantum Nanomaterials.” 3rd North American Materials Education Symposium, March 29-30, 2012.
  3. N. Grisewood, J. Eves, T. Usher and H. Braun, “Chiral magnetization configurations in magnetic nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.” 56th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, October 2011.
  4. Harris, Paul and Tim Usher, “Investigation of deformations regarding THUNDER actuators.” Poster, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2007.
  5. Francisco Rodriguez, Juan Fragoso,  Paul Harris, Marisela Aparicio, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr., Monica Marcial-Armenta, Timothy Usher, “Ferroelectric switching of KDP (KH2PO4) and doped KDP:Cr simultaneously studied by the epr and Merz methods”. Poster, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2006.
  6. Tim Usher, Alec Sim, Ken Ulibarri Jr. “Experimental results on pre-stressed piezoelectric cantilevers near resonance”, talk, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2004.
  7. Gilberto Camargo, Gevale Ashford, Eris Naco, Tim Usher, “Experimental measurements and finite element models of High Displacement Piezoelectric Actuators”, poster, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2004.
  8. Kenneth Ulibarri, Francisco Rodriguez, Marisela Aparicio, Tim Usher, “EPR vs. Electrical Methods of Monitoring Ferroelectric Switching Properties of Potassium Di-hydrogen Phosphate, a Comparative Study”, poster, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2004.
  9. Tim Usher, “Piezoelectric/Ferroelectric systems and ESR”, invited talk, SPIN 2003 conference, University of South Carolina, March, 2003.         
  10. Monica Marcial-Armenta, Kenneth Ulibarri, and Tim Usher, “Ferroelectric Domain Wall Dynamics Simultaneously Monitored by Switching Current and EPR Measurements”, poster,  March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2003.
  11. Tim Usher, Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, Alec Sim, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr. “Piezoelectric high displacement actuators”,  American Physical Society (APS) Meeting, March 2003.
  12. Tim Usher, “ELVIS has entered the Laboratory”, contributed talk, March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2003.
  13. Tim Usher and Paul Dixon, “Electronics curriculum for the modern experimentalist“ invited talk, 125th National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, August, 2002.
  14. Timothy Usher, Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, Ken Ulibarri Jr. “ NASA funded research at CSUSB”, CSU-NASA Education Collaborative Symposium, CSU-Long Beach, June, 2002.
  15. Timothy Usher, Angus Kingon, James Mulling, Brain Dessent, Jeremy Palmer, Paul Franzon, Eddie Grant. “Piezoelectric actuator applications in microrobotics” contributed talk, American Physical Society, March 2001.
  16. T. D. Usher “Small Robots”, department seminar Whittier College, March 2001.
  17. C. Kennedy, T. Usher, J. Mulling and A. Kingon. “Modeling and Simulation of THUNDER actuators using ANSYS Finite Element Analysis” Fourth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of microsystems, March 2001.
  18. Angus Kingon, Tim Usher, James Mulling, Brian Dessent, Jeremy Palmer, David Rooker, Paul Franzon, Eddie Grant. “Volume- and energy-efficient linear piezoelectric actuators” invited talk, ElectroCeramics 2000, Portoroz, Slovenia, September 2000.
  19. James Mulling, Brian Dessent, Paul Franzon, Eddie Grant, Jeremy Palmer, David Rooker, Tim Usher and Angus Kingon. “Characterization of strained unimorph-type piezoelectric actuators”  poster presentation,  International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF), March 2000.
  20. Brian Dessent, Paul Franzon, Eddie Grant, Angus Kingon, James Mulling, Jeremy Palmer, David Rooker, Tim Usher. (Tim Usher presenting). “Characterization of high displacement actuators with various boundary conditions”: Minisymposium speaker, Third SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 21-24, 2000.
  21. Paul Franzon (presenting), Eddie Grant, Angus Kingon, Brian Dessent, James Mulling, Jeremy Palmer, David Rooker, Darin Thomas, and Tim Usher. “Planar Processed Robots” Talk presented to the Robotics Principal Investigators Meeting held in Quantico Virginia, September 1999.
  22. Numerous unpublished DARPA reports. July 1999 – September 2000.
  23. T. D. Usher "A simple model for the suppression of ferroelectric switching in KDP." March meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1998.
  24. T. D. Usher "Effects of ionizing radiation upon ferroelectric switching in KDP." March meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1995.
  25. Kim Cousins,  Klaus Brasch, and Tim Usher "Undergraduate Research strengthened by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Instructional Laboratory Improvement (ILI) program." Poster presented at the Project Kaleidoscope workshop. September 1995.
  26. Deborah Schurr and Tim Usher (mentor) "Ferroelectric Demonstrations for the Classroom.” Talk presented at the 1994 Science Partnerships in Action Conference in Tucson Arizona.
  27. Deborah Schurr and Tim Usher "The Properties of Ferroelectrics." Poster presented at the 1993 Science Partnerships in Action Conference in Tucson Arizona.
  28. Tim Usher "Ferroelectrics." Talk presented at the fall 1992 CSUSB Faculty Research Symposium.
  29. T. D. Usher "Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (epr) Saturation Transfer Measurement of Spin-labeled Proteins." Presented to the Physics Department of the University of South Carolina, March 1984.

 

OTHER WORKS

 

1.     Timothy Usher and Kurt Kloesel, NASA Technical Report “The Use of Surface Acoustical Waves (SAW) for Aerodynamic propulsion and boundary layer ingestion.” (This is a kind of place holder for a possible patent application) Under review.

2.     Timothy Usher, Kurt Kloesel, and Rebecca Jenkins, NASA Tech Report “A simple, affordable, lightweight system of hardware and software to load test fuel cells.” This patent was not filed. 2010.

3.     Tim Usher “The machine that would be King”, The San Bernardino Sun newspaper, February 2003.

4.     Numerous unpublished Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARA) reports for the Distributed Robotics program. (1999/2000)

5.     Paul Dixon and Tim Usher, United States patent, An Integrated Electronics Design Station (IEDS) Serial number 60/225288, Filing Date  8/15/2000.

6.     Numerous grant progress and final reports.

 

SELECTED REFEREED STUDENT PUBLICATIONS (student coauthors on professional publications and presentations are included above, and not recounted here)

 

  1. Joseph J. Vandiver, “A Study of the Vaccine Effect in TGS using Polarization Switching Curves.” The Journal of Undergraduate Research In Physics Vol. 15 (1) 1996.
  2. Danny LaFuze (undergraduate), T.D. Usher "Ising study of Ferroelectrics" Proceedings - CUR VIII 1994.
  3. Abdallah Tabbara (undergraduate), T. D. Usher "High-Voltage Push-Pull Amplifier" Proceedings - CUR VI 1992.
  4. Ming Nhiatou Vang (undergraduate), T. D. Usher "Ferroelectric (KH2PO4) Sample Preparation" Proceedings - CUR VI 1992.
 
SELECTED STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

 

  1. Judy Tran. “RED: An organic piezoelectric,” Emerging Researcher’s National Conference, February, 26, 2016, Washington, DC.
  2. Lopez, Gabriel; “A New Organometallic Material, Possibly Ferroelectric”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of California Riverside, November 21, 2016.
  3. Martinez, O.; Bolanos, A.; Usher, T.; Merrill, S.; Martin, A.; Smith, D. “The Preparation of Croconic Acid,” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College, November 21, 2015.
  4. America Canto,  and Alexandra Robledo, “Aerodynamics: Wings of the Future”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College, November 21, 2015.
  5. Eliovardo Gonzalez, and Jeffrey Salazar, “The piezoelectric and semiconductor
  6. properties of new organic materials.” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College, November 21, 2015.
  7. Judy Tran, “Codename Red: An Organic Piezoelectric Material”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College, November 21, 2015.
  8. Martinez, Joseph; “Integration of Atomic Force Microscopy and Traditional Piezoelectric Techniques”   Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN), Washington DC, February, 2015.
  9. Pirolo, Jennie Poddar, Shashi; Usher, Tim ”Crsytal Design for Future Ferroelectrics” n. 22nd Annual Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Conference. California State University, Fullerton, CA. 2014
  10. Collins, Kevin Foreman, Keith; Shearer, M.; Adenwalla, S.; Usher, Tim, “Electric field control of magnetism in VDF/Cobalt”, 22nd Annual Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Conference. California State University, Fullerton, CA., 2014.
  11. Martinez, Joseph Jauregui, Luis; Poddar, Shashi; Usher, Tim, “Organic Piezoelectric Material "Red",” 22nd Annual Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Conference. CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 2014.
  12. Lopez, Nicole Martinez, Joseph Usher, Tim, “Powder X-Ray Diffraction on Red”, 22nd Annual Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Conference. CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA., 2014
  13. Flores, Fidel Vasquez, Joseph, “Low Cost Acoustic Levitation”, Upward Bound final symposium, CSUSB. Student Conference. San Bernardino, CA., 2014.
  14. Jauregui, Luis,  “Organic Piezoelectric Material Red”, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN), Washington DC, February, 2015.  Awarded first place for undergraduate, poster in the field of Nanoscience and Physics.
  15. Lopez, Nicole,  “Powder X-Ray diffraction on Organic Materials”, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN), Washington DC, February, 2015.
  16. Garcia, Abraham, “Electric Propulsion Research Test Stand” Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, Whitter College, 2013.
  17. Smith, Earl, Jr., “3-D printed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance sample holder”, Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, Whitter College, 2013.
  18. Jurado, Gabriel and Hughes Randy, “Fuel Cell Degradation”, Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, Whitter College, 2013.
  19. Vasquez, Joseph, “Analysis of Croconic Acid Oxidation via X-ray Diffraction”, Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, Whitter College, 2013.
  20. Collins, Kevin and Hannon, Melissa, “Ferroelectricity of Diisopropylammonium Bromide”, Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, Whitter College, 2013.
  21. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy)  “Degradation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells after X-Ray and Fenton Treatment” (Talk) NASA-Dryden, 2012.
  22. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy) “Degradation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells”, (Poster), National Conference for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Research, University of Maryland, 2012.
  23. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy) “Analysis of Degradation on Hydrogen Fuel Cells” (Poster), Meeting of the Minds Conference, CSUSB, 2012.
  24. Victor Jimenez (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Earl Smith), “Experimental Investigations of Organic Ferroelectrics” (Talk), Meeting of the Minds Conference, CSUSB, 2012.
  25. Victor Jimenez (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Earl Smith), “Experimental Investigations of Organic Ferroelectrics”, (Talk) NASA-Dryden, 2012.
  26. Victor Jimenez (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Earl Smith), “Experimental Investigations of Croconic Acid Single Crystals and Thin Films”, (Poster), National Conference for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Research, University of Maryland, 2012.
  27. Victor Jimenez (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Earl Smith) “Experimental Investigations of Croconic Acid Single Crystals and Thin Films” (Poster),  Meeting of the Minds Conference, CSUSB 2012.
  28. Earl Smith (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Victor Jimenez), “First EPR Results on Croconic Acid Single Crystals: G-tensor Quantification”, (Talk), NASA-Dryden, 2012.
  29. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy) “Degradation of PEM Fuel Cells” McNair Symposium, (Talk) CSUSB 2011.
  30. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy)  “Degradation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells”, (Talk) 20th Annual National Ronald E. McNair Research Conference & Graduate Fair MAEOPP UW-Milwaukee 2011.
  31. Abraham Garcia (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Holly Murphy) “Degradation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells” (Poster), SCCUR Mt. SAC California, 2011.
  32. Victor Jimenez (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Earl Smith), “Experimental Investigations of Croconic Acid, an Organic Compound” (Poster), SCCUR, Mt. SAC California, 2011.
  33. Victor Jimenez “Experimental Investigations of Organic Ferroelectrics” (Talk),  McNair Conference, CSUSB 2011.
  34. Holly Murphy (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Abraham Garcia), “Degradation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells”, (Poster), SCCUR, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, 2011.
  35. Earl Smith (Mentor: Timothy Usher, Associate: Victor Jimenez), “First EPR Results on Croconic Acid Single Crystals: (Talk), Mt. SAC, California, 2011.
  36. Earl Smith, “First EPR Results on new Organic Ferroelectric,” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November 20, 2010.
  37. Carlos Barbosa, “Powder X-ray diffraction of Croconic Acid,” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November 20, 2010.
  38. Holly Murphy, “Hydrogen Fuel Cell Degradation” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November 20, 2010.
  39. Holly Murphy, “Fuel cell Degradation,” CSUSB student research competition, Awarded second prize in her category, June 3, 2010.
  40. Carlos Barbosa, “The Study of Ferroelectricity,” CSUSB student research competition, June 3, 2010.
  41. Earl Smith, “Piezoelectric Properties and Potential Uses in Aerospace,”  CSUSB student research competition, June 3, 2010.
  42. Tiffany Tassano, Brett Stanley, and Tim Usher “Determining X-Ray Dose Rate for Nafion.”  Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) in November of 2008.
  43. Gregory Barding, Gregory Johnson, Brett Stanley, and Tim Usher,  “X-ray degradation of the polymer electrolyte Nafion.” Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2007.
  44. Rebecca Jenkins, Juan Fragoso, Timothy Usher, Gregory Barding, Brett Stanley, “Degradation of Nafion ® Membranes in P.E.M. Fuel Cells Due to X-ray Radiation.” Student session of the March meeting of the American Physical Society, March, 2008.
  45. Paul Harris, “Experimental characterization of piezoelectric THUNDER actuator shape.” Student session of the American Physical Society Meeting, March 2008.
  46. Rebecca Jenkins,  “X-ray degradation studies of Nafion in a PEM fuel cell.” Talk presented at the American Physical Society Meeting, March 2008.
  47. Paul Harris, “Experimental characterization of piezoelectric THUNDER actuator shape.” Talk presented at the American Physical Society Meeting, March 2008.
  48. Rebeca Jenkins and Juan Fragoso, “Development of Experimental Fuel Cell Membrane Electrode Assemblies for x-ray degradation studies of Nafion. Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2007.
  49. Paul Harris. “Experimental determination of piezoelectric THUNDER actuator shape.” Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2007.
  50. Paul Harris, “Investigation of Deformations regarding THUNDER Actuators.” Talk presented at the American Physical Society Meeting, March 2007.
  51. Francisco Rodriguez. “Ferroelectric switching of KDP (KH2PO4) and doped KDP:Cr simultaneously studied by the epr and Mertz methods.” Poster presented at the American Physical Society Meeting, March 2006.
  52. Francisco Rodriguez, Tim Usher (mentor), “Test and Measurement System for Ferroelectric Switching and Hysteresis Curves,” Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2006.
  53. Paul Harris, Tim Usher (mentor), “Structural Deformations in THUNDER Actuators” Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2006.
  54. Francisco Rodriguez, Ken Ulibarri, Monica Armenta, Juan Fragoso, Tim Usher (mentor), “A Cool, Closed Cycle Cryogenic System For EPR” Talk presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2005.
  55. Juan C. Fragoso, and Francisco Rodriguez, Tim Usher (mentor), “CaMoO4 studied via Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”, Poster presented at the Southern Conference on Undergraduate Research, November, 2005.
  56. Francisco Rodriguez, Marisela Aparicio, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr. and Monica Marcila-Armenta, Tim Usher (mentor). “Ferroelectric switching simultaneously studied by the epr and Mertz methods”,  Student poster at the March meeting of the American Physical Society, March 2005.
  57. Jacob Salazar, Gevale Ashford, Gilberto Camargo, Eris Naco, Tim Usher "Finite Element Modeling of High Displacement Actuators" NASA-Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) meeting, Long Beach. CA, September 13-16, 2004.
  58. Eris Naco, Gevale Ashford, Gilberto Camargo, Kenneth Ulibarri, Tim Usher (mentor), “Piezoelectric Actuators: Experiment and Computer Modeling” Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November 2003.
  59. Francisco P. Rodriguez, Marisela Aparicio, Ken Ulibarri, Monica Armenta, Tim Usher (mentor)  “Ferroelectric properties of KDP concurrently monitored by EPR and Mertz techniques”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November, 2003.
  60. Gilberto Camargo, Gevale Ashford, Eris Naco, Tim Usher (advisor), “High Displacement Actuators: Computer Model and Experiment. Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, November 2003.
  61. Marisela Aparicio, Francisco Rodriguez, Monica Marcial-Armenta, Ken Ulibarri, Tim Usher (advisor), “ A Comparison Study of the Switching versus Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Methods to Examine The Ferroelectric Properties of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate. Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, November 2003.
  62. Eris Naco, Tim Usher (mentor), “Piezoelectric Research”,13th Annual CSUSB Student Research Conference. May, 2003.
  63. Francisco Rodriguez, Tim Usher (mentor), “Ferroelectric Domain Wall Dynamics Simultaneously Monitored by Switching Current and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Measurements”, 13th Annual CSUSB Student Research Conference. May, 2003.
  64. Adalia Cabanyog, Gevale Ashford, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr., Alec Sim “Data Acquisition of THUNDER Actuators”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) California Institute of Technology, November 23, 2002.
  65. Alec M. Sim, Kenneth Ulibarri, Jr., Adalia Cabanyong, Gevale Ashford, “Characterization of THUNDER actuators in cantilever mode”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), California Institute of Technology, November 23, 2002.
  66. Gevale R. Ashford, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr., Adalia Cabanyog, Alec Sim, “Analysis of Cantilever Actuator Via Finite Element Modeling Program Ansys6.0”, Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), California Institute of Technology, November 23, 2002.
  67. Gevale Ashford, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr., Adalia Cabanyog, Alec Sim, “Finite Element Modeling of Cantilever Actuators”, Second Annual Scholarly Technical Assistance Workshop for NASA-FAR PIs and their students, Sponsored by QEM, Albuquerque, NM October 18-19, 2002.
  68. Adalia Cabonyog , Kenneth Ulibarri Jr, Alec Sim, Gevale Ashford “Data acquisition methods for dynamic modes of THUNDER type actuators”, Second Annual Scholarly Technical Assistance Workshop for NASA-FAR PIs and their students, Sponsored by QEM, Albuquerque, NM, October 18-19, 2002.
  69. Alec Sim, Kenneth Ulibarri Jr. Adalia Cabanyog, Gevale Ashford  “Theoretical Characterization of THUNDER actuators in dynamic operation mode” Second Annual Scholarly Technical Assistance Workshop for NASA-FAR PIs and their students, Sponsored by QEM, Albuquerque, NM, October 18-19, 2002.
  70. Kenneth Ulibarri Jr., Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, “Characterization of THUNDER Type Actuators”, 2002 Western McNair Symposium, UC Berkeley, CA, August 8-11, 2002.
  71. Gevale Ashford, Kenneth Ulibarri, Jr., Adalia Cabanyog,  “Finite Element Modeling of THUNDER Actuators” 2002 Western McNair Symposium, UC Berkeley, August 8-11, 2002.
  72. Linh Phan, Trevor Hickey, Brian Sullivan, “NMR Quantum Computing”, 12th Annual CSUSB Student Research Conference. May, 2002.

73.  Eric Theriault (undergraduate) and Tim Usher (mentor). “Cleaving and KDP”,  Poster presented at the March 1998 meeting of the American Physical Society.

  1. Joe Vandiver (undergraduate) and Tim Usher (mentor) "Ferroelectric Switching Curves in Tri-Glycine Sulfate Crystals." Talk presented at the 1994 Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research.
  2. Danny LaFuze(undergraduate) and Tim Usher (mentor) "An Augmented Small Matrix Ising Study." Talk presented at the 1994  Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research.
  3. Ming Vang (undergraduate) and Tim Usher (mentor) "Ferroelectric Sample Preparation." Talk presented at CSUSB student research competition. (91/92) Ming Vang went on to represent CSUSB at the system wide competitions.
  4. Abdallah Tabbara (undergraduate) and Tim Usher (mentor) "High-Voltage Push-Pull Amplifier." Talk presented at CSUSB student research competition. (91/92) Abdallah finished second in his area. He also went on to represent CSUSB at the system wide competitions.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

·  Fulbright Subject Area Reviewer. 2010-present.

·  Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR) grant proposal reviewer. 2007-present.

·  CSUSB campus administrator for the California Space Grant Consortium, 2004 - 2008.

·  Panel reviewer for the CSUSB Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC), 2003-2008

·  I organized a conference sponsored by the late U.S. Representative George Brown and The American Physical Society, “Shaping Science and education to meet the industrial needs of the twenty-first century”. Conference attendees included Dr. Walter Massey (former director of NSF), Dr. Martha Krebs, (then director of the Office of Energy Research), and Becky Morgan (then president and CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network) 1995.

·   Journal Reviewer for the American Journal of Physics, Journal for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and The Physics Teacher. 1990 – present.

·   Internship advisor for CSUSB Applied Physics program.

·   National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panels: Instructional Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program, 1994  and 1995. Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program 2003 and 2004.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Physical Society (I served as a US congressional visitor for this organization)

Council on Undergraduate Research (Institutional Membership)

American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

Society of Physics Students (CSUSB advisor)

The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)


Phi Kappa Phi (all-discipline honor society)

Sigma Pi Sigma (National Physics Honor Society)

Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society)