Teaching

• CE5110: Theory of Plates and Shells (Graduate level course)

Appointments: Autumn Semester 2024 (Partial appointment only for Theory of Shells)

Course content: Classification of shells; Theory of surfaces; Love thin shell theory; Membrane and bending theory for singly curved and doubly curved shells; Shells of revolution; Various approximations.

• CE0491: Design Studio (Undergraduate level course)

Appointments: Autumn Semester 2024 (Partial appointment only for Structural Engineering part)

Course content: Introduction to design codes; Standards and guidelines including  IS875 and IS1893; Load cases and load combinations.

• CE5211: Stability of Structures (Graduate level course)

Appointments: Spring Semester 2025

Course content: Criteria for design of structures - stability, strength, and stiffness; Classical concept of stability; Stability of discrete systems - linear and nonlinear behavior; Stability of continuous systems - stability of columns, axial flexural buckling, lateral bracing of columns, combined axial flexural torsion buckling; Stability of frames - member buckling versus global buckling, slenderness ratio of frame members; Stability of beams - lateral torsion buckling; Stability of plates - axial flexural buckling, shear flexural buckling, buckling under combined loads; Introduction to inelastic buckling and dynamic stability.

• CE5209/CE6221: Advanced Concrete Design (Graduate level course)

Appointments: Spring Semester 2025 (Half appointment)

Course content: Introduction to reinforced concrete structures; Basic material properties; Properties of concrete; Basic design concepts; Moment redistribution in continuous beams - bond and development length, curtailment of reinforcing steel; Columns - derivation of axial compression and bending interaction curves, design of slender columns, design for biaxial bending; Analysis and design for torsion - behavior of reinforced concrete members subjected to torsion, design methods of torsion, difference between equilibrium and compatibility torsion, concept of equivalent shear and bending; Design examples, design for combined loading (Torsion + Bending + Shear).

• ECI 189E/134: Structural Loads: Calculation and Modeling (Undergraduate level course)

Appointments: Winter Quarter 2021 and Spring Quarter 2020

Role: Teaching Assistant and Computer Lab Instructor

Instructor: Prof.  Barbato, M.

Course content: Structural analysis process and model idealization; Design codes, standards, and guidelines including IBC and ASCE 7; Load paths for vertical and horizontal loads; Load cases and load combinations; Modeling of loads using finite element software; Dead and live loads; Snow loads; Earthquake loads; Wind loads; Climate change effects on snow and wind loads.

• ENG 104L: Mechanics of Materials Laboratory (Undergraduate level course)

Appointment: Winter Quarter 2020

Role: Lab Instructor

Course content: Plastic behavior; Strain in 2d and pressure vessels; Column buckling; Bending stresses; Indeterminant beams; Wide flange beam; Combined stresses; Deflection of wood beam; and Shear center.

• ECI 132: Structural Design Metallic Elements (Undergraduate level course)

Appointments: Fall Quarter 2020, Fall Quarter 2019 and Fall quarter 2018

Role: Reader

Instructor: Prof.  Barbato, M.

Course content: Design of metallic beams, columns, and other members for various types of loading and boundary conditions; design of connections between members; member performance within structural systems.

• ECI 130: Structural Analysis (Undergraduate level course)

Appointments: Spring Quarter 2021, Spring Quarter 2019, and Winter Quarter 2019

Role: Reader

Instructor: Prof. Cheng, L./Prof. Dafalias, Y.

Course content: Method of Joints and Sections using the Trusses; Diagrams and Differentials on Beams; Influence Lines; Deflections by Direct Integration, Elastic Curve; Energy Relations (Concept and Derivation); Virtual Work for Trusses and Beams and Other Applications; Indeterminate Structures by Force Method using Beams and Frames/Trusses, Composite/Multiple; and Displacement Method (Slope-Deflection on Beams and Frames).

• Computer methods in Civil Engineering

Appointment: Fall Semester 2012

Role: Teaching Assistant

Instructor: Prof. Shashidhar and Prof. Phanindra, K.B.V.N.

Course content: MATLAB programming, matrix analysis, curve fitting principles, linear and non-linear regression, the solution to ordinary differential equations, the solution to partial differential equations, the system of linear equations, optimization.

• Finite element lab

Appointment: Spring Semester 2013

Role: Teaching Assistant

Instructor: Prof. Rajagopal, A.

Course content: Computer-based analysis thru the Ansys (FEA software) medium using the same basic approaches as the “hand solutions” developed in the classroom. The lab course covers static, modal solutions that incorporate several types of line and continuum style elements, as well as techniques in global and local meshing, h and p method solutions, optimization, and parametric analysis