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Teaching

• As Assistant Professor (at South Dakota State University)

Fall semesters: Engineering Mechanics in Biomedical Applications (ME 446/546, class-size 25)

Fall & Spring semesters: Mechanical Engineering Design using MATLAB (ME 212, class-size 40-70)

• As Visiting Faculty (at the UNC / NC State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering)

Fall 2018: Skeletal Biomechanics (BMME 505, class-size 35)

Fall 2017: Statics (BMME 160, class-size 30)

• Other solo teaching appointments (all at Virginia Tech)

Spring 2014: Instructor for Statics (ESM 2104, class-size 70)

Summer 2012: Instructor for Fluid Mechanics I and Fluid Mechanics II

Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011: Instructor for Fluid Mechanics Lab

• As Graduate Teaching Assistant (at Virginia Tech)

Fall 2010: TA for Mechanics of Deformable Bodies

Fall 2009, Spring 2010: TA for Statics

• Mentorship stints (pre-tenure track)

1. Research mentor to a mechanical engineering sophomore student (Ms. S Winter, Virginia Tech. Summer 2012)

Program: NSF EFRI – Research Experience and Mentorship

Research area: Three-dimensional potential flow model of fluid diffusion inside an insect  abdomen and the flow mechanisms in the insect heart (a pulsed source-sink system)

Output: Presentation at the NSF Grantees Conference (2013)

2. Training mentor to a graduate intern (Ms. N Witten, UNC Chapel Hill, 2016 — 2017)

Area: 3D model development from CT imaging, CFD simulations

3. Mentor to UNC medical residents, on research rotation (Dr. BM Brandon, Dr. EL Perkins, Dr. A. Kappa, 04/2016 – Present)

• At OIST, Japan

Spring 2016: Gave lectures on Nonlinear Dynamics & Applications to PhD students and Postdocs

• Teaching development course

Preparing Future Professoriate (Virginia Tech, Spring 2013)