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Melvin Steinberg, Ph.D.
Professor (emeritus)
Office: McConnell Hall 410
phone: (413) 585-3884
fax: (413)585-3786
email: msteinbe@email.smith.edu
Current interests:
Conceptual difficulties and non-formal reasoning in physics
learning, reforming pre-college physics education,
grandparenting (easier than parenting). Mel has spent
sabbaticals in Denmark and Israel. He is the author (with 14
physics teachers) of "Electricity Visualized", and is
leader of a National Science Foundation project to develop a new
high school electricity curriculum. (Mel has retired as of
1994.)
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