Faculty

Awards

• UCFV Teaching Excellence Award (2000).
• Visiting scientist at SFU (1994-1995).
• The Vancouver Sun on Oct 20, 1990 did a full-page story (The Magic of Science) on my work for Science World.
• The Knowledge Network produced a video (1990) of some of my demonstrations for use on its science shows.
• An innovative teaching award from the Canadian Association of Community Colleges (1988)
• Northern Telecom award (1988) for the innovative use of technology in the classroom.
• A $12,000 grant from the Calgary School Board (1976) to conduct research into the efficacy of computer-aided-instruction (CAI).
• National Science Foundation Scholarship (1971) from USA for my M.Sc. Degree at the University of Portland.
  
  

UCFV Service

• Faculty rep. on the UCFV Board of Governors (2005-2008)
• Science Department Head (1995-1997)
• Chair/author of the proposal for the B.Sc. (physics) degree.
• Committee Chair for the first review of the UCFV Physics Department.
• FSA president (1992-1994?)
• FSA Contract Chair (1990)
• UCFV committees (Admission and Standards, CCC, etc.)

Invited Talks

• The Terror of Thinking, (2006,2007) The UCFV Student Society
• Nonlinear Physics, (2005) Elder College (Chilliwack)
• Nonlinear Biology, April 2001, BC Biologists Articulation meeting
• The nonlinear properties of the human eardrum, University of Western Washington, Oct. 2001
• The nonlinear flight of golf balls, April 2000, BC section of the AAPT.
• The toys and joys of nonlinear physics, a Seminar at SFU in 1999
• The toys and joys of nonlinear physics, a Seminar at UBC in 1999
• The efficacy of using computer algebra in the classroom. Presented at the Feb.1995 BC AAPT section meeting.
• Nonlinear Maple files, presented at the Feb. 1994 BC AAPT Section meeting.
• The flying circus of physics, presented at the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference held at York University in Toronto, Ont. 1992
• Animated graphics with a microcomputer, Red Deer College (Alberta) 1984.
• Using a microcomputer to improve the traditional Talk and Chalk instructional techniques, Fourth Canadian Symposium on Instructional Technology (1983), Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• Computer graphics: Audio visual techniques, SFU computer graphics conference in 1982
• From 1980 to 1990 I was traveling throughout the province of BC giving talks, on behalf of Science World, to the students in public and private schools. 
• The Knowledge Network made a video of my talks and this video was shown on its network for a number of years.
  
  

Contributed Papers

• At the present time I am giving science talks on cruise ships, e.g.: The puzzles and paradoxes of science, The toys of physics, The pleasure and terror of thinking, etc. and in all of these talks the University of the Fraser Valley is mentioned and praised for its commitment to higher education.
• Teaching nonlinear physics using numerical and symbolic computational software, May 1996 APS/AAPT conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Simple toys that demonstrate nonlinear behavior, January 1996 AAPT conference in Reno, Nevada.
• Using inexpensive toys to provide effective classroom demonstrations. August 1992 APS conference in Orono, Maine.
•  Innovative programming techniques to numerically solve nonlinear differential equations, at the January 1987APS/AAPT conference in San Francisco.

Refereed Publications

Books

• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Computer Algebra Recipes: An Advanced Guide to Scientific Modeling, Springer-Verlag (NY) 2008.  ISBN  0387257683
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Computer Algebra Recipes: An Introductory Guide to the Mathematical Models of Science, Springer-Verlag (NY) 2005. ISBN  0387257675
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Computer Algebra Recipes for Classical Mechanics, Birkhauser (Boston) 2003.    ISBN  0-8176-4291-9
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Computer Algebra Recipes: A Gourmet’s Guide to the Mathematical Models of Science, Springer/Verlag 2001. ISBN 0-387-95148-2
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Nonlinear Physics with Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers by Birkhauser (Boston) 2000.  ISBN     0-8176-4223-4
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers, 2nd edition by Birkhauser (Boston) 1999.  ISBN   0-8176-4119-X
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers by Birkhauser (Boston) 1997.  ISBN  0-8176-3838-5
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., A Laboratory Manual for NONLINEAR PHYSICS with Maple for Scientists and Engineers, Birkhauser 1997. ISBN 0-8176-3841-5

Refereed Papers

• Lawrence R. Levy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Weiguang Yao, Eastern Health - Cancer Care Program, St. John’s, Newfoundland, George McGuire, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Dan N. Vollick, University of British Columbia, Okanogan, BC, Jennifer Jetté, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AL, Matthew J. Shanahan, James M. Hay, Richard W. J. Neufeld, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Nonlinear Bifurcations of Psychological Stress Negotiation: New Properties of a Formal Dynamical  Model, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 429-456. © 2012 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences.
• McGuire, G., The motion of an electric charge in an electric and magnetic dipole field, American Journal of Physics 2004.
• Enns, R. and McGuire, G., Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers, Maple Tech, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1997.
• McGuire, G., CAI: Program and programming techniques that utilize the microcomputer as an interactive audio-visual device, Computers in Education Volume 8, No. 4, 1984.
• McGuire, G., Computer programs for physics teachers, The Physics Teacher, April 1978.

To see citations for George McGuire, perform a web search (George McGuire Semantic scholar) and you will get detailed information on all the citations.  Summary below:

George C McGuire
Publications 58
h-index 5
Citations 233
Highly Influential Citations 12