Eastern Illinois University

Physics Department
Physical Sciences Building
Room 2131
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave
Charleston, IL 61920
Phone: (217) 581-3220
Fax: (217) 581-8548
physics@eiu.edu

Welcome to the Physics Department!

You really have to look closely but there is a hummingbird behind this bird feeder. You can see its beak on the left side and its tail on the right. In the bird feeder you can see the image of the hummingbird. Optics effects are abundant in the world around us and this is simply an application of a lens.

The Eastern Illinois University Physics Department is located in the Physical Sciences Building on Fourth Street in Charleston, Ill. The department has nine faculty members who teach and carry out research in the fields of Astrophysics, Acoustics, Physics Education, Computational Physics, and Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics.

About 45 undergraduate Physics majors and 45 Pre-Engineering students make up our department's student body. The department encourages collaborations with other colleges and universities, industries, and other entities. Eastern Illinois University started out as a state teachers college, so the roots of the department are based in a culture of excellence in teaching with the emphasis on student learning.

The richness of educational opportunities offered in the department is based upon a long and distinguished tradition of teaching and research. EIU graduates have gone on to make extraordinary contributions to science as researchers, teachers and intellectual leaders in a variety of fields.