Rate My Professor Darrell Lim

Darrell Lim is an Instructor of Physics at Portland Community College, serving on the Sylvania Campus in the Science and Engineering Department since his appointment on September 1, 2016. Prior to joining PCC, he worked as an Adjunct Instructor at City College of San Francisco. Lim holds a Master of Science in Physics from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California State University, Fullerton. He teaches courses including PHY 100, PHY 121, and PHY 201, and has contributed to open educational resources via OpenOregon Press, developing worksheets for PHY 201 alongside Rod Lee and supporting materials for PHY 121, PHY 122, PHY 123, and GS 107 based on OpenStax Astronomy. Lim reviewed open textbooks for the Open Textbook Library, evaluating University Physics in 2018 and College Physics in 2017, emphasizing their suitability for community college curricula.

In departmental leadership, Lim has served as Subject Area Council Chair for Physics during multiple annual discipline updates and program reviews from 2019 to 2022, and he received continuous full-time faculty appointment in June 2019. He mentors students in hands-on research, guiding a 2018 project funded by a NASA SCORE grant that modeled traffic flow using fluid mechanics principles, as well as a presentation at the 2025 Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium Spring Symposium on Active and Passive Techniques for Lunar Dust Reduction. Lim pursues professional growth through conference participation, including a 2019 grant-supported presentation on Active Learning in Introductory Physics Courses and attendance at the Forum on Education Abroad in Houston, Texas, in February 2017 as part of PCC's internationalization efforts. His work supports innovative physics education and student success at the community college level.