Some examples of my teaching and teaching resources

Engineering Programming

This course introduces essential programming concepts for engineers, using Python as the primary language. The course starts with the basics such as data types, flow controls, algorithmic thinking and moves on to symbolic math, data analysis and basics of machine learning. The course content is available on GitHub for anyone to use!

In addition to fundamental concepts, there are interactive examples that I use in the class such as:

This course will evolve over time and will include more content and examples, both within and outside of Civil Engineering!

This course also comes with it's own chatbot, Civil Programmer, which is designed to give feedback to students without revealing full code. It is designed to mainly provide assistance with basic syntax and pseudocode, encouraging students to fill in the gaps.

Sustainable Pavement Design and Analysis

In this course we cover most aspects of pavement engineering. Materials, mechanistic analysis, design, assessment, management, sustainability, machine learning applications and more.

To teach the concepts better, I use these interactive examples of:

More is on the way!

Of course, again for the ones who love an AI chatbot, I created a GPT called Pavement Doctor which offers access to an extensive array of resources, including textbooks, scientific literature, and reports, covering a breadth of topics in pavement engineering. Check it out and ask your pavement-related questions!

Statics

Statics is a core engineering course where students learn the basics of structural mechanics in engineering. It was one of my favorites as a student as I saw a lot of applications! Given statics is a sophomore class, I try to incorporate topics from other sophomore classes such as programming and statistics into statics such that the student can learn to combine concepts from different classes. More on that on Are we teaching engineering in Silos?

I also have a interactive examples in which I cover concepts from:

I try to keep these examples simple but still tied to real world applications!

For the ones who love an AI chatbot, I again created a GPT called Rigid Body of Knowledge which contains various statics books and websites as resources and is accessible through ChatGPT! It offers help to students on all relevant topics and it can also solve numerical questions via the built in code interpreter. Keep in mind that GPT's can make errors!