Tug Sezen
Freedom High School
1050 Neroly Road
Oakley, CA 94561

Email: tsezen@hotmail.com

Tug Sezen teaches Chemistry, Physics and Web Publishing at Freedom High School in Oakley, California. He is the coordinator of Math Engineering Science Academy (MESA). He received his degree in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and Masters in Leadership in Educational Technology from CSU Hayward. His recent professional activities included:

Mr. Sezen believes with hands on science students will retain more of what they learn, look at science with greater enthusiasm, perform high-level reasoning tasks better and solve real science problems more adeptly. He tries to teach science in context by using Project Based Learning. He has always attempted to integrate technology into his science curriculum through labs that utilize computer interfaces, sensors, probes. In physics his students do projects anywhere from catapults, Rube Goldberg machines to robotics. His chemistry students do research projects on Nanotechnology, and build Fullerene and nanotube models.

• Cofounder of the NASA Space Settlement Design Contest with long term association with NASA Ames Research Center. The web site he is involved and the contest did won an award by NASA headquarters.
• .Received "Impact" award by Contra Consta Office of Education.
• As a Department of Energy Fellow participated in Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) studies and Ion Beam Tomography at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He helped to adapt a computer program for PIXE data analysis.
• As a Research Research Corporation Fellow he participated in the study of carbon encapsulated magnetic materials, nano tubes and Fullerenes at San Jose State University. He conducted experiments in x-ray crystallography, Mossbauer Spectroscopy, and Magnetometry.. He was invited to do a presentation in Tucson, Arizona Partners in Science Conference on "the magnetic properties of carbon encapsulated materials".
• As an IISME Fellow at Lockheed he developed interface using Lab View for environmental monitoring of Metrology Department. The program through communication with microprocessors in environmental monitors could gather data about humidity and temperature continuously, store data, graph data and alert if environmental conditions exceeded certain parameters.