Dr. Spike oversees the implementation of active learning techniques in large-enrollment service courses including Physics 103 and 104. Since joining the physics department in January 2017, Dr. Spike led the transition to design-based laboratory activities in Physics 103/104. Dr. Spike received his Ph.D in physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2014, having previously earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from UW-Madison in 2007. Before returning to Madison, he previously served as Academic Coordinator & Lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley.

Josh Weber teaches and helps to organize large-enrollment service courses in the department.  He works mostly with the calculus-based sequence that is primarily aimed at engineers, Physics 201 and 202.  Josh earned a B.A. in physics and French at Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  Before joining the department, Josh did post-doctoral work in biological imaging and magnetometry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and taught undergraduate physics at Grinnell College and at Parkland College.