Teaching and Mentoring

<center><font size=2>Earthquakes are fun! (ECI 175)</font></center>

Earthquakes are fun! (ECI 175)

<center><font size=2>Do Balloons behave as Pressure Vessels? (ENG 104L)</font></center>

Do Balloons behave as Pressure Vessels? (ENG 104L)

<center> <font size =2>Who likes Geometry? (Vidya teaching project)</font></center>

Who likes Geometry? (Vidya teaching project)

<center> <font size =2>SURA team at IIT-D</font></center>

SURA team at IIT-D

<center> <font size =2>Summer research interns at IIT-D 2017</font></center>

Summer research interns at IIT-D 2017

Teaching

  • Instructor of Record: ECI 175 Geotechincal Earthquake Engineering
    September 2022 - December 2022
    Faculty Advisor : Prof. Jason T. DeJong
    Taught the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering course to a class of 50 students composed of senior undergraduates and incoming graduate students. Prepared and delivered weekly lectures on ground motions, GMPEs, PSHA, fundamental soil mechanics, and liquefaction analysis. Created weekly assignments and quizzes and held office hours. Motivated students regarding prospects, including opportunities in industry and graduate school.

  • Teaching Assistant: ECI 3 Introduction to Civil Engineering
    Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Winner
    September 2012 - December 2022
    Instructor : Prof. Katerina Ziotopoulou
    Created an Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering module, along with accompanying interactive lab sessions, to introduce the unique behaviors of soils originating from their granular nature and the effects of earthquakes on civil infrastructure for a class of 120 students. Prepared for and taught lab sessions, held office hours and assisted the course professor in grading lab reports and course assignments.

  • Teaching Assistant, ENG 171L Soil Mechanics Laboratory
    March 2012 - June 2022
    Instructor : Prof. Alejandro Martinez
    Prepared and taught lab sessions, held weekly office hours, and graded lab reports for over 15 students. Updated the content for particle shape analysis and seepage labs. All teaching was remotely administered.

  • Instructor, Python Programming Short Course
    2019-2022
    Instructor : Prof. Katerina Ziotopoulou
    Created and delivered a python programming short course for over 40 graduate and post‑doctorate researchers in the civil and environmental engineering department. The workshop contents range from introduction to programming to engineering data analysis and post‑processing using python. Advocated the use of open‑source alternatives to engineering tools.

  • Teaching Assistant, ENG 104L Mechanics of Materials Laboratory
    Spring 2018, Winter 2019
    Instructors : Prof. Amit Kanvinde, Prof. John Bolander
    Taught lab sessions, held weekly office hours, and graded lab reports for over 45 students. Developed interactive activities to introduce the concept of pressure vessels and the state of stresses. Introduced risk‑based analysis of failure modes using thought experiments.

  • Teaching Assistant, CVL 222 Intoduction to Soil Mechanics
    January 2018 - May. 2018
    Instructor : Prof. GV Ramana Held weekly office hours and led midterm and final review sessions for a class of over 60 students. Assisted in the preparation and administration of student labs.

  • Introduction to Geometry
    December 2016
    Vidya Teaching Project NSS-IITD

    • Introduced Geometry to a class of 7th students
    • Designed interactive assignments for complex problems
    • Evaluated students with class tests and provided feedback


Mentoring

Here a few students I mentored and made friends on the way:

  • GGSS mentorship program
    Mentee : Riya Anilkumar, Irene Liou
    Affiliations : Incoming graduate students at UC Davis
    Duration : 2020-2022
  • Python code for surface topology quantification
    Mentee : Damon Nguyen
    Affiliations : Third year Bachelors student at UC Davis
    Duration : June 2018 - July 2021
    Advisor : Prof. Alejandro Martinez
  • Fabric evolution in Granular soils
    Mentee : Damon Nguyen
    Affiliations : Final year Bachelors student at UC Davis
    Duration : Summer 2019
    Advisor : Prof. Alejandro Martinez
  • Dessication cracking of Fiber Reinforced Soils
    Mentee : Ashutosh Raj, Vidushi Toshniwal
    Affiliations : Third year Bachelors students at IIT-Delhi
    Duration : June 2018 - July 2018
    Advisor : Prof. R Ayothiraman
  • Slope Stability analysis using SPH
    Mentee : Ramesh Venkataraman
    Affiliations : First year Masters student at GeorgiaTech
    Duration : June 2017 - June 2018
    Advisor : Prof. GV Ramana
  • Macroscopic properties of aggregates
    Mentee : Parminder Singh Padam
    Affiliations : Third year Bachelors student at NIT Kurukshetra
    Duration : June 2017 -August 2017
    Advisor : Prof. GV Ramana
  • Stress-strain-volume change behaviour of Micaceous Sand
    Mentee : Ramesh Venkataraman
    Affiliations : First year Masters student at GeorgiaTech
    Duration : June 2017 - July 2017
    Advisor : Prof. GV Ramana