Teaching Assistantship at IISc
Teaching Assistantship at IISc
Duration: August - December, 2023
Institute: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Description: As a teaching assistant, my responsibilities include preparing assignments and examination papers, holding doubt-solving sessions, providing solutions, and assessing answer sheets.
Assignments and Exam paper (with solutions)
Duration: March 2024 (16 Hours)
Institute: ISSS, PMRF student lecture series
Mode of teaching: Live online classes
Description: This was an elementary course on Scientific Computing following topics were covered in the course: introduction to FORTRAN, basic syntax, data type, operations, decisions, loops, array, dynamic array, derived data type, basic input/output, file input/output, procedures, modules, makefile, intrinsic functions, some advanced concepts on using LAPACK and BLAS libraries and parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI.
Duration: 15 to 19 January 2024 (40 Hours)
Institute: Department of Civil Engineering, Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Mode of teaching: Offline
Description:
Hands-on Python session: Introduction - getting started, Syntax, Variables, Data types, Operators, List, Conditional statements, Loops, Functions, Classes and Objects, Modules, Libraries: Numpy - a wide variety of mathematical operations with array and matrices and linear solution problems. Matplotlib - data visualization and graphical plotting library (scatter plot, histogram, bar graph)
Basic Linear Algebra and using Python to solve problems: Brushing up of topics in Linear Algebra - Matrix manipulations, solutions of linear equations - LU/QR/SVD. Hands-on Python exercises.
Numerical Optimization Methods Introduction: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimality, Global and Local Optima, Convex Objective function, Unconstrained Optimization: Least Square Problem, Line Search Method (Gradient Descent (GD), Batch GD, Stochastic GD, Adaptive Method and Regularization, Newton Method, Conjugate Gradient)
Duration: June 2023 (14 Hours)
Institute: ISSS, PMRF student lecture series
Mode of teaching: Live online classes
Description: Basic concepts: thermodynamic system, state and property, thermodynamic processes and cycle, thermodynamic equilibrium, temperature, and Zeroth law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics: heat and work, energy balance for a closed system, and control volume. Pure substance: thermodynamic properties of pure substances, phase diagrams, P-V-T diagram. The second law of thermodynamics: Kelvin-Plank, and Clausius statement - equivalence, reversible and irreversible processes, reversible heat engine, Carnot cycle, absolute temperature scale. Entropy: Clausius Inequality, Principle of Increase in Entropy, Entropy Analysis for a closed and open system, Entropy production in cyclic processes. Exergy: Exergy, and Its Balance, Availability Analysis for Closed and Open Systems, Second Law Efficiency, Helmholtz and Gibbs Function.
Duration: April 2023 (12 Hours)
Institute: ISSS, PMRF student lecture series
Mode of teaching: Live online classes
Description: This was an elementary course on Scientific Computing following topics were covered in the course: introduction to FORTRAN, basic syntax, data type, operations, decisions, loops, array, dynamic array, derived data type, basic input/output, file input/output, procedures, modules, makefile, intrinsic functions, some advanced concepts on using LAPACK and BLAS libraries and parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI.
Duration: September to December 2022 (24 Hours)
Institute: ISSS, PMRF student lecture series
Mode of teaching: Live online classes
Description: This introductory solid-state physics course dealt with matter’s macroscopic and microscopic properties, particularly solids. The course topic includes: introduction and motivation, the specific heat of solids: Boltzmann, Einstein, and Debye model, electrons in metals: Drude theory and Sommerfeld theory, chemical bonding: covalent, ionic, and metallic bonding, 1D toy model: 1D monoatomic chain, 1D diatomic chain, tight binding chain, crystal structure, and reciprocal lattice.
Duration: 4th March, 2023 (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM)
Institute: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Description: On the occasion of IISc open day (a day when students, science and technology enthusiasts, and the public have the opportunity to visit and explore different laboratories inside the IISc campus), we organized a "Kids Zone" under the banner of Science for Rural India (SFRI). In Kids-Zone, we demonstrate science experiments, attracting middle and high school students. I was part of the design and decoration team for the Kids-Zone organization, and I also showcased an experimental setup to demonstrate heat conduction in solids.
Duration: November 2021 to April 2022, (40 Hours)
Institute: Science for Rural India (SFRI)
Mode of teaching: Concept presentation, Experimental Model and Video Explanation
Description: SFRI is a student-led organization at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore with the aim of sharing scientific knowledge among students from rural areas. As a member of the content creation team, my responsibilities include performing several science-based activities, creating presentations, and producing videos to elucidate concepts. I chose activities 1 to 5 from the NCERT Science textbook (7th standard, chapter 4 - Heat) to explain the idea of temperature and its measurement. I recorded these activities and compiled a presentation to illustrate the concepts. This task required approximately 40 hours to complete.