As co-instructor, I developed and gave instructional lectures and designed a new hands-on lab centered around a water pumping system I had developed for solar-powered cooling chambers in Kenya and India. By generating and analyzing data from the lab, students were able to select a water pump that could meet flow requirements for an irrigation system in a developing economy.
Course Description: Students survey energy technologies including solar wind and hydro power, cooking, indoor heating, irrigation, and agricultural productivity, through an international development context to impart energy literacy and common-sense applications. This course focuses on compact, robust, low-cost systems for meeting the needs of households and small business; and provides an overview of identifying user needs, assessing the suitability of specific technologies, and strategies for implementation in developing countries. Labs reinforce lecture material through hands-on activities including system assembly and testing.
I led and taught this course for approximately 70 students. As the instructor, I developed all the course materials including problem sets, exams, and lecture notes. The course included a final design project of a renewable energy system, and a field visit to an electricity generation plant outside of Accra.
Course Description: This is an integrated course of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics theories and their application to engineering systems, and the study of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. The course will look at the application of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics principles in systems like engines, refrigeration cycles and pumps. Students will study in detail the basic sciences behind thermal and fluid systems.
I led and taught this course for approximately 90 students. As the instructor, I developed all the course materials including problem sets, exams, and lecture notes. I opened lectures with popular videos highlighting core concepts (such as rocket launches and acrobatic skills) and designed problems to analyze these videos. When the course was disrupted by onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I switched to a Flipped Classroom model where lectures were posted asynchronously online and problem solving workshops and Office Hours were done live on Zoom.
Course Description: This course is an introduction to classical mechanics and fundamental physics theories. The course will focus on motion of objects using basic kinematic and kinetic principles. At the end of the course, students will have a firm understanding and practical experience with the fundamental mechanics theories. Some topics introduced in this course will be expanded in other advanced courses, such as Introduction to Thermal and Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Heat and Thermal system and Dynamic Systems. Writing quality lab reports will also be emphasized.