Anyone who can’t explain his work to an eight-year-old is a charlatan.
Attributed to Dr. Felix Hoenikker, in
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
I am always teaching, and I am always learning: in the classroom; in my office hours; in the laboratory; and in the library. I love interacting with students, discovering new ways to explain difficult concepts using words or graphics, and highlighting the way seemingly disparate technical concepts are linked by mathematics or physics or history. I strive to create an open and interactive classroom in which students and faculty are fully engaged with the material and with each other. Our Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship interviewed me about teaching here.
Courses taught at Lafayette College:
AMS/ES 252 Engineering America
ES 101 Design Thinking (cool article about this class; 2014 ASEE paper)
ES 230 Strength of Materials
EGRS/AFS 220 Race and Technology
EGRS 270 Designing London (taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London)
FYS 059 First Year Seminar: The Grand Challenge of Global Hunger (2019 ASEE paper)
FYS 075 First Year Seminar: Technological Citizenship
ME 360 Thermodynamics II
ME 362 Fluid Mechanics
ME 470 Heat Transfer
ME 475 Thermal/Fluids Systems
ME 489 Intro to Biomedical Engineering
ME 492 Biomechanics
ME 497/8 Senior Design Projects
VAST 217 Art & Science of Flow Visualization
Courses taught at Harvey Mudd College:
E59 Dynamics of Engineering Systems
E80 Experimental Engineering
E83 Continuum Mechanics
E131 Fluid Mechanics
E132 Heat Transfer
E111-3 Engineering Design Clinic
