Teaching

• Undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral research training;
• Classroom instruction at the graduate and undergraduate levels;
• Outreach  to students in Greater Orlando middle-, high school, and community colleges.

Dr. Kuebler receiving a 2008 UCF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Dr. Kuebler receiving the 2005 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award from the Orlando Chapter of the American Chemical Society.

Classroom Instruction

Dr. Kuebler teaches the courses listed below on a rotating basis throughout the academic year. Access the UCF Course Catalog to find out when a particular course is being taught.

Some teaching materials for these courses are distributed electronically via WebCourses.

NPM-Group researcher Britt Torrance honored as UCF's Outstanding Freshman Chemistry Student for 2003/2004.

Dr. Kuebler has also mentored interns from the UCF Institute for Simulation and Training. During this internship, students created rendered animations that illustrate concepts in NPM Group research. The animations are used for outreach presentations and graduate training, and some of these can be downloaded from the research page.

Dr. Kuebler's first group of students: Inorganic Chemistry Lab (CHM 4610L, 2003)

Educational Outreach

The NPM group has developed an outreach program designed to encourage Greater Orlando middle-, high school, and community college students to engage in their own science education and consider pursuing careers in science and engineering for themselves. The program is based on peer-to-peer learning encounters in which undergraduates and graduates from the NPM group visit local science classrooms and teach students about their research in materials chemistry, optics, photonics, and nanotechnology. The encounters include hands-on activities that enable students to explore concepts used in our research. Presentation content is coordinated in advance with classroom instructors to support the Sunshine State Standards curriculum. Participating classes are also invited to visit our laboratories to see our research environment first-hand. A specially formed advisory council stewards the outreach, assisting with program content, classroom presentations, activities, and assessment. A fundamental premise of the outreach is that students are more likely to become interested in science and invested in their own learning when they see that concepts they study are used by their peers in frontier research, particularly in emerging fields, such as nanotechnology.

NPM Group member Amir Tal teaching students in the "Science Seminar" course at Seminole Community College about his research in nanophotonics (9 October 2006, Maitland, FL).

Our outreach collaborators include:

• Orange County Public Schools
• Valencia Community College -- Dept. of Science
• Seminole Community College -- Dept. of Physical Sciences
• College of Education, UCF
• Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, UCF
• Burnett Honors College, UCF
• The McNair and RAMP Scholars Program, UCF

Members of the outreach advisory council members include:

• Ms. Molly Malloy, K-12 Science Curriculum Specialists, Orange Co. Public Schools
• Dr. William Oelfke, Dean of Physical Sciences, Valencia Community College
• Dr. Stephen P. Summers, Chair of Physical Sciences, Seminole Community College
• Dr. Alison Morrison-Shetlar, Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, UCF
• Dr. Jeffrey S. Kaplan, College of Education, UCF
• Dr. Aldrin Sweeney, College of Education, UCF
• Dr. Alvin Wang, Dean of the UCF Honors College
• Ms. Kelly Astro, Director of Research and Civic Engagement, UCF Honors College
• Mr. Michael Aldorando-Jeffries, Director, McNair and RAMP Scholars Program, UCF
• Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler, Dept. of Chemistry and CREOL, UCF