I’ve had several teaching opportunities while at UIUC and Purdue University.

Unique Teaching Opportunities

Most notably, I was the Lead Teaching Assistant (TA) for CEE 190: Project-Based Intro to CEE in Fall 2022. This course is a freshman level course all CEE undergraduate students are required to take and involves learning about civil engineering in a hands-on way via a semester long group project. As the Lead TA, I coordinated with ~240 undergraduate students, 5 other TA’s, and 3 professors who were teaching the course and updated the course Canvas page and Gradescope page. I also guided 11 groups of students on their semester long project along with the typical office hours and grading.

Additionally, I was also the CEE Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) Teaching Assistant for Spring 2023 and Summer 2023. The goal of the CEE SIIP project is to modernize the undergraduate CEE program by adding more computer programming and automation in junior level CEE courses. For CEE 330: Environmental Engineering, I developed homework problems on the PrairieLearn platform using Python and HTML to help students gain coding skills. I also developed and designed fillable Jupyter Notebooks along with solution notebooks for labs for CEE 300: Behavior of Materials. The goal for this course was to guide students into learning how to use Python for analyzing materials data.

Courses I’ve TA’d

Furthermore, I’ve had the opportunity to be a graduate TA for several different courses at UIUC. A few of them involve helping students develop projects and or co-leading lab sessions (noted below) along with the typical grading and office hours.

UIUC

• TA for CEE 498ISL: CE Measurement and Experiments | Spring 2024 | ~12 students (Lab & Project)
• TA for CEE 572: Structural Dynamics II | Spring 2022 | ~12 students (Project)
• TA for CEE 472: Structural Dynamics I | Fall 2021 | ~55 students

Purdue University

• Physics 172: Modern Mechanics | Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 | ~20 students (Lab)