Teaching

1. ENGRD 221: Engineering Thermodynamics, Cornell University, Fall 2007

Instructor: Professor Nicholas Zabaras

Course Responsibility: Lead student recitations and prepare all the recitation handouts. Homework grading.

2. MAE 715: Atomistic Modeling of Materials, Cornell University, Spring 2008

Instructor: Professor Nicholas Zabaras

Topics covered:

Kohn-Sham equations, Density Functional theory, Density Functional Perturbation theory, Quantum Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Monte Carlo methods

Course Responsibility:

Handled some lectures. Provide instructions on how to use first-principal software: GULP, Quantum Espresso, LAMMPS.

3. MAE 4700/5700: Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical and Aerospace Design, Cornell University, Fall 2008 and Fall 2009

Instructor: Professor Nicholas Zabaras

Topics covered:

Minimum potential energy and principal of virtual work, Truss and beam, One dimensional boundary value problem 2-D Heat problem, 2-D Solid mechanics problem, Finite element modeling of incompressible flow.

Course Responsibility:

Prepare and grade all the homework. Lead lab section and recitations. Develop a MATLAB finite element library for solving homework problems, which implements both linear and quadratic elements to solve various fluid and structural problem and also includes a module to read mesh file from ANSYS. It can be downloaded from Software.