Teaching Experience

During graduate school, I have gained significant teaching experience by serving as a teaching fellow for three semesters (course details below). Both classes were largely lab-based, and I was heavily involved in both designing the experiments and supervising the students in carrying out these experiments. I was honored for my efforts with a Harvard University Certificate for Distinction in Teaching (a university-wide award).

  • Astronomy 191: Astrophysics Laboratory

    Level: Undergraduate
    Laboratory and observational projects in astrophysics, carried out with the research facilities of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Students design and undertake two projects from a selection including: observational studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation, interstellar hydrogen, giant molecular clouds, the rotation of the Galaxy, Galactic molecular sources with the submillimeter array (SMA), and laboratory experiments including super-conducting submillimeter detectors, microwave spectroscopy, and hard x-ray imaging detectors and telescopes.
    ***As part of this course, I designed and built a student experiment to measure 21cm radiation using a simple horn antenna. For more information see this page.

  • Physics 123: Laboratory Electronics

    Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
    A lab-intensive introduction to electronic circuit design. Develops circuit intuition and debugging skills through daily hands-on lab exercises, each preceded by class discussion, with minimal use of mathematics and physics. Moves quickly from passive circuits, to discrete transistors, then concentrates on operational amplifiers, used to make a variety of circuits including integrators, oscillators, regulators, and filters. The digital half of the course treats analog-digital interfacing, emphasizes the use of microcontrollers and programmable logic devices (PLDs).