Md. Shafayat Hossain (Pre 2021) - Teaching & Outreach

Md. Shafayat Hossain (Pre 2021)

Teaching, Outreach, & Professional Service

University Administrative Fellow (2019-2020)

Education outreach and science communication, Princeton University Center for Complex Materials.

Mission: Hands-on science outreach for young children with disabilities and promote STEM in underrepresented communities. We are among the pioneers of science outreach for the blind and visually impaired audiences.

Events conducted:

Accessible science outreach in Maryland Braille challenge 2020 at the Maryland School for the Blind,
Accessible science outreach in the 2nd Annual New Jersey Regional Braille Challenge, 2020.
Accessible science outreach at the National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey 43rd annual state convention, 2019.
Collaborated with a non-profit organization, HISPA, to pioneer virtual science outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, and made inspirational videos for young children from underrepresented communities showing my journey in science. Here is the link to my video: https://youtu.be/FUULMfU622U
Delivered an invited talk in Princeton University Materials Academy, a 3-week materials science and engineering program for high school students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Science outreach at i) Princeton Community and Staff Day, ii) National chemistry week.
Collaborated with Jen Myronuk, Co-founder, STEM on Stage, to stage “Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit with Marie Curie” at Princeton and participated as a science panelist.
Organized Teachers as Scholars development program for k12 teachers and delivered a 45-min research talk.
Organized the annual holiday lecture on the science of ice cream and presented a liquid N2 ice cream demo.
Organized and presented science demos on Frankenstein day in the Princeton Public Library.

Conference talk on science outreach:

Md S. Hossain, J. M. Van Wyck, J. Bhattacharya, and D. Steinberg,Science Outreach via University Administrative Fellowship at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, American Chemical Society Spring 2020 National Meeting, Philadelphia, 2020. PDF file for my slides: [pdf]

Prison Teaching July 2019

--Delivered lectures on my research at the inaugural Summer Symposium at Federal Correctional Institution at Ft. Dix arranged by Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative.

PDF file for my slides: [pdf]

Assistant in Instruction (Fall 2015)

ELE 441 - Solid State Physics (graduate course), Princeton University

Instructor: Prof. Mansour Shayegan

--Conducted weekly problem-solving sessions, graded assigned homework and exam, held weekly office hours for a class of 20 students.

Assistant in Instruction (Spring 2019)

EGR 153 - Foundations of Engineering: Electricity and Photonics (Freshman course), Princeton University

Instructor: Prof. James Sturm

--Conducted lab sessions, assisted the Professor in setting up problem sets for homework and exam, graded assigned homework and exam, held weekly office hours for a class of 10 freshman students, conducted weekly course meetings, and mentored 2 undergraduate teaching assistants.

Lecturer (Mar 2013-Aug 2014)

Bangladesh Univ. of Engg. and Tech

Course Instructor:

Designed the course content, prepared and delivered lectures, tailored the lab manuals, conducted the lab sessions, and set up the problem sets for exam. My course webpage can be found here.

Research Work Mentored:

Development of self-consistent Schrodinger-Poisson solver to analyze ballistic performance and the effects of oxide border trap defects on the performance of FET devices
TCAD modeling and noise performance analysis of III-Sb superlattice Avalanche photodiode/MESFET optical receiver

Project Work Mentored:

ATM Booth Design, Dimension based Object Separator, Digital Clock, IC Tester etc. for Lab projects

Invited Tutorials:

PCB design workshop in Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PCB design workshop in East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mentoring College Students:

Mentored many college students and wrote graduate school recommendation letters for 4 students.

Mentor:

Mentor in NSF REU program Summer 2019

Undergraduate Summer Research in Molecular Biophysics at Princeton University

--Mentored a community college student (Ms. Dallas Brodersen) in summer research at Princeton University, 2019. As an integral part of the NSF-REU training, I mentored her on scientific writings and presentations with a goal to develop a broader perspective in STEM research. Ms. Brodersen is joining Princeton as an undergrad from Fall 2020.

Graduate student mentor

Mentored SUZ Khan, a graduate student in Princeton University from Bangladesh.

Presenter in science outreach for young children

Princeton University Center for Complex Materials education program for the public materials science nano-day 2015 and 2017 (over 500 young children and their families participated in each).

--Presented hands-on demos of motors, generators, conversion between chemical, mechanical, and light energy, magnetic braking, and the diamagnetic levitator.

Professional Service:

Referee: Physical Review & Physical Review Letters (Completed 4 reviews)

Lab Safety Liaison: Responsible for maintaining safe and efficient laboratory work environment in Prof. Shayegan's research group.

Lab Representative: Gave lab tours to visiting professors and many prospective graduate students.

Committee Member: Graduate Engineering Council, Princeton University.

-- Organized annual School of Engineering and Applied Science festivals and monthly Pizza socials.

Member: American Physical Society (APS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Committee Member of Electrical Engineering Climate and Inclusion Committee, Princeton University, 2019-2020

The goal of the committee is to assess the Department’s climate for underrepresented groups and make recommendations in the spirit of finding best practices that ensure all members of the department feel respected, included and supported by our community.

We are promoting anti-racism and virtual community building during the time of COVID-19 and social distancing. Our efforts include: promoting interaction between the incoming graduate students and the rest of the department via lunch meetings of research groups over zoom, creation of small groups based on interest, and planning for zoom events to promote graduate-undergraduate interactions.

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