Students may complete all requirements for the major as well as all education courses and student teaching in four years. Because Physics stresses broad foundations and not narrow specializations, it opens up careers in many fields. Former Westminster Physics majors now have successful careers as lawyers, engineers, medical doctors, ministers, military officers and business executives. The physics department coordinates the 3-2 Engineering program, a dual degree arrangement with accredited engineering universities. The physics department s most valued asset is its faculty.
All members hold Ph.D. degrees and are full professors.
Each student in the Physics major has an adviser who is one of the physics department faculty members. Students meet regularly with their advisers to discuss academic programs and progress. Faculty advisers are prepared and eager to assist and support students. Students and faculty have worked together on projects ranging from the construction of a hovercraft and a robot to investigation of nuclear decay using a computerized multichannel analyzer. William L. Johnson , department chair Ph.D., U.S. Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, California.