I am currently working as an instructor the the Curriculum Transformation Project (CTP) in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Stanford. The goal of the CTP is to revamp the undergraduate materials science curriculum at Stanford and build a set of courses that more effectively prepares undergraduate students for careers in industry and academia. 

While working on the CTP project for the undergraduate structures and characterization course, I worked with Enze Chen to create in-class assignments that would help improve student engagement in the course and allow them to work with their classmates to gain a stronger understanding of the course content. This included short worksheets that mimicked homework and exam questions, developing python scripts for visual aids, and online interactive modules. This allowed students to gain both a conceptual understanding of the course materials during the lectures while also interacting with their classmates to work through these assignments together. The idea of this approach was to allow students to think like materials scientists and work through problems in groups, mirroring the type of work they may encounter in graduate school or in industry work. 

In the fall of 2024, I served as a TA for Matsci 214: Structure and Symmetry of Materials, which was taught by Professor Andrew Mannix. This course is the first of the Materials Science graduate core curriculum at Stanford and covers topics from the basics of physical chemistry, reciprocal space, crystallography, diffraction, and symmetry. During the quarter, I led office hour sessions for review and homework support for over 70 graduate students. I also helped lead exam review sessions and developing solution sets.