You're viewing this page first, not because being an instructor for MIT's capstone Product Design courses (2.009 and 2.00b) was my biggest accomplishment, but because it was my most educational experience in the field I wish to pursue. Below, you will find examples of the work involved with being an instructor this past year, hopefully capturing the breadth and the depth of experience I gained.

Teaching is easy when you're passionate about the subject at hand. I love mechanical engineering, and here I am teaching a 2.009 student (Michael, Class of 2022) how to add threads to an aluminum workpiece I previously helped him lathe [left], and here I am providing a 2.009 student (Jaime, Class of 2022) product design feedback on her design review presentation about the wheelchair accessibility enhancement device her team was working on [right].

Teaching is easy when you're passionate about the subject at hand, but not as easy in front of 160 students in an MIT lecture hall. Here I am explaining to students the different manufacturing techniques used to create an everyday object like this fan, and subsequently demonstrating a common failure mode of rapid combustion [top]. Here I am giving an example of appropriate and inappropriate design review feedback with Professor Wallace [bottom].

Capturing the design process for all 160 students of 2.009 was one of my many responsibilities as an instructor. Here I am filming one of many 2.009 lectures, capturing lecture audio and relevant student activity, which I will edit myself later and post onto the course website [top left]. The rest of the photos are examples of my photography work, capturing the essence of the 2.009 student experience in their labs or in team meetings.

One of my duties as course instructor is to artistically develop (via Illustrator), prototype, and set up large scale events aimed at showcasing the project progress of the students of 2.009 as the semester goes on. Here are two photos I took and edited of the 2.009 2021 Build Challenge [top left], and the 2.009 2021 Final Presentation [top right], large scale events reaching up to 1100 in-person viewers. Here are two additional drone photos of the Build Challenge I edited [bottom left and bottom right].

I stand next to Professor Wallace inside the alien suit I helped design and create for the first lecture of the term [top left]. I stand with Professor Wallace and other teaching assistants wearing beaver costumes for our Halloween lecture [top right]. I stand with all major staff involved with executing the 2021 2.009 Final Presentation [bottom].