Teaching is one of my passions, and a big part of the reason that I'm pursuing graduate education! I began teaching by serving as an undergradute teaching assistant (TA), and continued serving as a TA during my graduate studies. For my teaching, I was awarded the Department of Mechanical Engineering's 'Teaching Assistant Award' during my graduation from the University of Rochester. I was also awarded the Department of Atmospheric Sciences' 'Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award' for the 2022-2023 school year.
For the upcoming 2023-2024 school year, I will be serving as the lead TA for the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and I am looking forward to working as a TA in the future! Below, you can see an overview of the courses I've TA'ed.
ME 104: The Engineering of Bridges (Fall 2017, '18, '19) An introduction to the principles of mechanical engineering through the lens of bridges. The course includes fundamental notions of mechanics, strength of materials, structural behavior, failure analysis, and design optimization.
ME 120: Engineering Mechanics I (Spring 2019) An introductory course for majors aimed at exploring the core concepts of mechanics such as units, forces and force systems, centroids and the center of mass, among others. Specific applications include plane and space trusses, frames, machines, internal forces in beams, and distributed loads on cables.
ME 223: Heat Transfer (Spring 2020) An upper level course covering the key aspects of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation. Specific topics include both steady-state and transient heat conduction in a variety of systems, analyzed analytically and numerically, the fundamentals of convection in mechanical systems such as in pipes and over flat plates, and radiation as relevant to fields such as climate and the Earth's energy balance.
ATM S 101: Weather (Fall 2022) An introductory course for non-majors covering several major topics within the field of meteorology. Subjects include an overview of weather measurement and mapping systems, the composition and structure of the atmosphere, basic atmospheric phenomena such as precipitation, the Coriolis force, and radiative physics, as well as a brief introduction to storm systems and weather forecasting.
ATM S 301: Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences (Fall 2022) Intended for prospective atmospheric science majors, this course provides a broad introduction to the atmospheric sciences, including atmospheric composition, weather forecasting, radiation, thermodynamics, clouds and climate.