Teaching

I taught required and elective courses on air quality at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program. My teaching was in the general area of fluids and thermal sciences, with an emphasis on air quality.

  • Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering – A sophomore and junior required course covering air and water resources, pollution control and prevention, and solid and hazardous waste; taught to 70 undergraduate students.
  • Toxic Chemicals & Environment – A first-year seminar course taught to 20 first-year students, focusing on the environmental and health effects of toxic chemicals and what individuals can do daily to limit exposure; the course included a service-learning component.
  • Indoor Air Pollution – An elective course offered every two years to around 20 students, of which 60% were graduate students. All graduate students conducted a research project and presentation, which resulted in a short publication submitted to Indoor Air or Healthy Buildings conferences.
  • Air Pollution Control Engineering – A required EVEN course covering particulate and gas-phase control technology, including a multiweek design project. This course was taught annually to around 70 students, of which 15% were graduate students. All graduate students gave a lecture and wrote a research paper.
  • Air Quality Measurements – An elective graduate course offered every two years to around 10 graduate students. The students completed a research project and presentation.
  • Thermodynamics 1 and 2 – Required ME courses taught to 75–100 undergraduate students.
  • Measurements Laboratory – A required ME course taught to 30–60 undergraduate students.
  • First-Year Design Projects – A required ME and EVEN course taught to 30 undergraduate students.

I mentored graduate and undergraduate students in air quality research. Many of my research projects were led by M.S. thesis students, which was somewhat unique to my research group, in addition to projects led by Ph.D. students.