educational strategy

overview

 I believe that teaching and learning is a process of mutual engagement between both educators and students. Given the broad spectrum of learning styles, this requires the utilization of a variety of educational approaches. Through my teaching career, I have thus applied myself to the production and usage of lecture materials (for traditional learners), videos and at-home workbooks (for self-motivated students), and interactive lab sessions and hands-on projects (for practical experience for students). I encourage students to think beyond the classroom, and emphasize the importance of technical communication via written reports and oral presentations as part of the engineering process. I am a huge proponent of project-based assessment, and encourage students to view these as opportunities to learn how to learn: interpret design requirements, communicate engineering decisions, and perform design space exploration for any given challenge. Finally, given their essential nature in all careers, I make reflection and evaluation an essential component of my courses. Students should have the ability to appreciate the issues within any design: not just the hardware and software technical components, but also ethics, user experiences, and future proofing in a world of rapid technological change.

recent teaching experience

 I have taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels in Australia, the USA, and New Zealand in accredited engineering programs. My focus and expertise is in the computer systems and computer engineering fields, with a particular focus on FPGA-based development.

Classes I have taught at UNSW include:

Courses I have previously taught include:

pedagogical strategy

After setting the objectives and communicating the context of a given course, my goal is to produce both individual and group assignments with peer assessment, built-in reflective exercises, and feature clear assessment rubrics. Students should always understand how they are graded and why they received a given mark. I find interactivity an essential part of engaging students, so try to design lessons with live discussion and Q&A, technology and coding demonstrations, and producing informal recordings.