Mr. Leon R. Leonardo
Contact Info.
(310) 660-3593 x3234
lleonard@elcamino.edu
Born and mostly-raised in California. Attended, occasionally, John Burroughs High School, in Burbank, CA. Eventually graduated. Drafted and subsequently joined U.S. Army in 1969; honorably discharged 2 years, 9 months, and 3 days later. (Note: all dates of my service record are fully and clearly accounted for.) Attended Compton College, UCLA, and CSULB. Earned a B.S. in Engineering, UCLA; M.A. in Physics, CSULB. Taught classes at Compton College and CSULB. I've been teaching full time at El Camino College since fall, 1981, and plan to do so until 2010. I love teaching. I also like fixing stuff (cars, motorcycles, physics demonstrations...mostly mechanical stuff), home building, working on and flying my half-owned airplane, SCUBA diving, travel by camper (4x4 van), motorcycling (on-road, not off-road; too old and uncoordinated for off-road biking), racquetball--knees allowing, hiking, river rafting. (Ten points extra credit to the first person who can successfully teach me the Eskimo Roll.)
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Mr. Norman Kadomoto
Contact Info.
(310) 660-3593 x3233
nkadomot@elcamino.edu
Born in Arizona at a Relocation Center. Mostly raised in Southern California. Attended John Muir High School and Pasadena City College both in Pasadena, CA. Received B.S. and M.A. in Physics from USC. Also received an M.A. in Astronomy from UCLA. I have taught Physics, Astronomy, and Math at Compton College from 1975 to 1985, and have been teaching Physics, and some Astronomy at El Camino since 1985. I love teaching, SCUBA diving, river rafting, and reading. I also like backpacking, off-road motorcycling, off-road driving, camping, and sailing, but I have not been able to do these things in quite a while.
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Ms. Susana Prieto
Contact Info.
(310) 660-3593 x3230
sprieto@elcamino.edu
Born and raised in Mexico City. Earned a B.S. in Physics at the Universidad Nacional in Mexico City. Taught physics for the first time at a middle school in Mexico, and also at the Universidad Anahuac. Emigrated to the United States to study and also to work as a Research Assistant at the University of Southern California. Earned a M.S. in Engineering from USC. After working in industry for a few years, returned to teaching in 1988. Has been teaching full time at El Camino College since fall, 1991. Loves teaching, traveling, hiking, bicycling, reading.
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Dr. Eyal Goldmann
Contact Info.
(310) 660-3593 x3096
egoldmann@elcamino.edu
I was born in L.A. County and grew up mainly in Costa Mesa. I double-majored in Physics and Math-Applied Science at UCLA, and got my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at UCSD. My Ph.D. thesis was on the subject of quantum Hall dots. Quantum dots are puddles of electrons which live inside semiconductors, and "Hall" means that the dots are subject to strong magnetic fields perpendicular to the plane of the puddle. After grad school, I was a postdoc in the chemistry department at University of Rochester. Since escaping from that position, I've taught physics at Cuyamaca College, in east San Diego County; and at the University of Dayton, in Dayton, OH. I'll be teaching physics at El Camino starting in August 2005. When not helping others to deepen their understanding of the universe, or engaging in the study of physics myself, I like to play classical piano, cook, hike, read history books and novels, and take slow-paced but high-excitement Talmud classes.
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