TEACHING

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PREPARATION SEMINAR

As part of the international development project I led in Nepal in Summer 2018, I developed and taught a course for my team of six graduate and undergraduate engineering students. The seminar was focused on understanding ethical and effective service in foreign contexts, learning principles of sustainable and resilient residential building design, and developing a work plans to complete the deliverables expected of us on the ground in Nepal.

BUILDING SYSTEMS

CEE 156/256: Building Systems is a core class in Stanford’s Sustainable Design and Construction program. I served as the teaching assistant under Professor Rishee Jain and Lecturer Erik Kolderup. The course aimed to teach students fundamental concepts about various building systems (HVAC, lighting, psychrometrics, building envelope) and building energy modeling (e.g., model inputs and assumptions, calibration).

As a part of my teaching requirement, I am currently developing a set of introductory tutorials and exercises to teach students the basics of energy modeling in EnergyPlus and OpenStudio.

NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR URBAN SYSTEMS

I was the teaching assistant for Professor Rishee Jain’s spring quarter course CEE 345: Network Analysis for Urban Systems. The course was intended to introduce students to the mathematical concepts dictating networks metrics describing them as well as how to utilize network models to study urban systems-level problems. Students in the class were then expected to complete a final open-ended project about an urban systems problem – often related to their ongoing research.

DESIGNING YOUR STANFORD

For two years, I was a facilitator for this d.school class. Designing Your Stanford is a course about how to get more out of, rather than cramming more into, the Stanford experience. The course is aimed at freshman and sophomores looking to have a fulfilling undergraduate experience by looking at college through the lens of design thinking. I facilitated small group discussions and taught design thinking concepts looking at ideas like the purpose of college, major selection, and innovating college outcomes.

DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE (SPLASH)

As part of the Stanford initiative, SPLASH, I, along with other members of the Urban Informatics Lab, teach a two-hour introductory course to high school students about data-driven urban design. Many of the concepts we discuss in the class are research ideas each of the members on the teaching team considers in his or her own work. The class involves brainstorming ideas about what each of us values in an ideal city, discussing how we can use data to understand and improve how cities function, and allowing small student teams to synthesize these ideas into their own design for an ideal, data-driven city.