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Owen has been an instructional assistant in multiple engineering courses including UCSD's MAE 3: Introduction to Mechanical Design and MAE 30A: Statics and Introduction to Dynamics. In these roles they have discovered their passion for teaching and helping students discover the wonders of engineering.
MAE 3: Intoduction to Mechanical Design
MAE 3: Intoduction to Mechanical Design
MAE 3: Introduction to Mechanical Design was Owen's first class as an instructional assistant. As a tutor in MAE 3, Owen helped design the competitions each quarter and bring the fun ideas into reality. Competitions were designed to allow students' engineering knowledge to meld with their creativity and outside of the box thinking and promote development of good engineering thinking. Students spend four weeks working on a clock project to introduce them to CAD, engineering design, and fabrication techniques; then students team up and spend the next five weeks creating a robot to compete in the final competition.
(Top) Pictured is Owen's first section of students in the Fall 2024 quarter. In the instructional assistant role, Owen helped students manage their projects and apply their engineering theory to this physical challenge. MAE 3 is a challenging class which requires students to stay on track and Owen's role was to ensure that students understood the material and felt confident as they worked through the many challenges their teams faced. Owen has been an instructional assistant for MAE 3 three times.
(Middle) A video created to advertise the Spring 2025 competition at the beginning of the quarter and inspire students to let their creativity free! This quarter's competition was a tribute to MAE 3's 25th anniversary.
(Bottom) Owen as the MC for the final Robot Competition in the Fall 2024 quarter of MAE 3. Students were tasked with collecting bouncy balls and filling up see-saws in the middle of the table. This competition was themed around the movie Interstellar.
MAE 30A: Statics and Intro to Dynamics
MAE 30A: Statics and Intro to Dynamics
In MAE 30A: Statics and Introduction to Dynamics, students learn to apply their physics knowledge to engineering problems. Pictured is one of Owen's office hours teaching for this course. Compared to MAE 3 this role required a much more conceptual mode of teaching, making sure that students understood the fundamental concepts of physics that they were applying. By teaching in this course, Owen developed their mathematical and physics side of teaching, learning how to best assist students in learning how, why, and where to apply their knowledge from physics to the context of engineering.
As part of their role in MAE 30A: Statics and Introduction to Dynamics, Owen created YouTube videos working through problems from the course in order to ensure every student had access to thorough explanations of the concepts. Pictured is one of the videos Owen created, the goal of these videos was to allow students who may not have been able to fully grasp the problems during office hours, discussion, or lecture to have a resource to review on their own time and be able to learn the material at any pace. Owen really enjoyed creating these videos and is interested in creating more videos to help students understand the processes of engineering and physics in different ways.
MAE 198: Engineering Outreach to Underprivileged Schools in San Diego
MAE 198: Engineering Outreach to Underprivileged Schools in San Diego
As an opportunity to boost accessibility and inclusion in STEM education, Owen lead the development of a lesson on buoyancy and basic fluid mechanics targeted at elementary and middle school education for MAE 198 affiliated with IEEE HKN Outreach.
Owen designed and created 3D printed demonstrations using different volumes and weights to visualize the effects of buoyancy. The lesson also included an activity where students were tasked to build a boat out of cardboard and paper to hold the largest amount of weight by taking advantage of the principals taught in the Buoyancy lesson.
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