Sessional Lecturer
MECH 458/554 - Mechatronics (Spring 2019)
This course is open to both the 4th year undergraduate students and graduate students at the University of Victoria. It particularly focuses on providing an overview of the following topics: introduction to mechatronic systems; modelling of mixed mechatronic systems; microcontroller programming and interfacing; data acquisition; sensors and actuators; control architectures and case studies in mechatronic systems. As a lecturer, my responsibilities include: (i) giving course lectures; (ii) designing assignments and exams; and (iii) tutoring labs and projects for 68 students.
Teaching Assistant
MECH 430/580 - Robotics
I have been the lab teaching assistant for MECH 430/580 for 5 years. As the first lab teaching assistant when the course instructor purchased Geomagic Touch robots to build a practical lab component, I helped commission the robots, test their connections to MATLAB/Simulink, and design all lab sections. Since then, I have guided the students’ learning MATLAB/Simulink and of the robots’ proprietary interface to it, have guided their debugging of their lab experiments, and have marked their reports. In Summer 2020, I have pivoted the lab to full online delivery due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To enable students to work from home, I have redesigned all the labs, implemented a simulation and 3D animation of a robot kinematically similar to the Geomagic Touch robots, developed a new instruction manual, and have taught the students how to use these files to carry out the labs online.
MECH 330 - Introduction to Mechanical Vibration
This course focuses on analysing vibration characteristics of mechanical systems. My job is giving tutorials to students and answering their questions about the content of their lectures every week.