Rate My Professor William Miner

With a robust research portfolio in plasma physics and fusion energy, Dr. Miner has authored or co-authored 49 publications, accumulating 759 citations. His scholarly contributions focus on computational modeling of plasma behavior, tokamak experiments, stellarator configurations, and free-electron lasers. Key publications include "Transport with pellet fuelling in the Texas Experimental Tokamak" (2011), "Electron thermal confinement studies with applied resonant fields on TEXT" (2011), "Current diffusion in TEXT" (2011), "Efficiency and Spectrum Enhancement in a Tapered Free-Electron Laser Amplifier" (2009), "Efficiency enhancement in seeded and self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron lasers by means of a tapered wiggler" (2009), "Physics basis for high-beta, low-aspect-ratio stellarator experiments" (2000), "Use of a genetic algorithm for compact stellarator coil design" (2001), "Physics issues of compact drift optimized stellarators" (2001), "Physics Design of a High beta Quasi-Axisymmetric Stellarator" (1999), and "Plasma Configuration Control in NCSX" (1999). In 2023, Miner earned the ACUE credential in Effective Online Teaching Practices, a nationally recognized honor for implementing evidence-based strategies to boost student success in virtual learning environments. This achievement was part of an initiative honoring 115 Palm Beach State College faculty members at a pinning ceremony.