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  • Phone:

    +966-13-849-9377

  • Email:

    ggunderson@pmu.edu.sa

  • Office No:

    F-121

  • Gunnar Gunderson

  • Job Title :

    Lecturer

  • College :

    College of Sciences and Human Studies


  • Department :

    Mathematics & Natural Sciences


Gunnar Gunderson is a Lecturer in Mathematics and Physics. He is a passionate educator whose aspiration is to help others achieve their human potential in the context of achieving excellence in the study of mathematics and physics. His extensive educational and professional background has prepared him to teach a wide range of courses with excellence – in his years at PMU he has taught Engineering Physics, Introductory Physics, Engineering Physics Labs, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Probability and Random Signal Analysis, Calculus 2, Business Calculus, Pre-Calculus, Algebra, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Study Skills.
Gunnar holds a B.S from The University of Michigan with a double major in Mathematics and Physics (1986), an M.S in Physics from Purdue University (1989), a state of Indiana Teaching License in Secondary Level Mathematics and Physics (1992), as well as having done extensive course work in Physical Oceanography at Oregon State University (2002).

  • PhD Program in Physical Oceanography, ABD, Oregon State University, 2002. 
  • State of Indiana Teaching License Math/Physics, Purdue University, 1992. 
  • MS Physics, Purdue University, 1989.
  • BS Mathematics and Physics, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1986. 

 

 

  • Observations of boundary mixing over the continental slope, J. Phys. Oceanogr ., 32, 2113-2130, 2002. (J.N. Moum, D.R. Caldwell, J.D. Nash and G.D. Gunderson). 
  • Elastic Scattering of polarized protons from  2H and  4He, G. Gunderson, S. Villanueva, A. Judd, A. Nadasen,  P. G. Roos, D. Mack, F. Khazaie, J. Templon, K. Kwiatkowski, P. Schwandt, J. Sowinski, A. A. Cowley, J. Lawrie, R. E. Warner, and J. Rovine, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 30, 1268 (1985).

 

 

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December 2006 – Present: Lecturer in Mathematics and Physics, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

February 2003 – December 2006: School Supervisor, Al-Bassam Schools

August 1995 – January 2003: Graduate Research Assistant in Physical Oceanography, Oregon State University

August 1994 – June 1995: Physics Lecturer, University of Alabama Birmingham

August 1992 – June 1995: Physics Teacher, Alabama School of Fine Arts Math / Science Program

Introductory Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Calculs1, Calculus 2, Calculus for Business, Statististical Methods,  Engineering Physics 1, Introductory Physics, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Probability and Random Signal Analysis, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Study Skills.

My research interests have included nuclear physics and ocean mixing. I am not currently active in scientific research.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)