Teaching Experience and Pedagogical Training

Catholic Institute of Technology

Instructor (August 2024 – Present)

• General Chemistry (Fall 2025) - planned from scratch
• Seminar in Research + Engineering Practice (Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
• Differential + Integral Calculus (Fall 2024) - planned from scratch

MIT Chemical Engineering Department

Guest Lecturer: Introduction to Modeling and Simulation (April 2024)

• Lecture on density functional theory for undergraduates

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Machine Learning for Molecular Engineering (10.C01/10.C51)

• Faculty: Profs. Connor Coley, Ernest Fraenkel, and Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli
• Coordinated with one other TA to prepare and grade homework assignments, hold weekly office hours, and manage all course logistics for 60 students (undergraduate and graduate)

MIT Teaching + Learning Lab

TA Days Training (January 2022)

• Learned strategies to support student well-being and to facilitate effective office hours

Grad Teaching Development Tracks Certificate Program

• Inclusive Teaching Track (May 2021); Microteaching Track (March 2021); Lesson Planning Track (January 2021); Subject Design Track (June 2020)

MIT Chemical Engineering Teach-Off Competition

1st Place Awardee (April 2021)

• Prepared and taught a 10-minute virtual lesson and was judged to be the best out of seven graduate student and postdoc competitors in the department by a panel of teaching experts

University of Michigan Department of Chemical Engineering

Computational Lead – Chemical Engineering Team – Perch Education (February 2018 – May 2019)

• Created the computational curriculum for a new class to reduce barriers to undergraduate research in collaboration with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students

Instructional Aide – Fluid Mechanics (January – April 2018, January – April 2019)

• Coordinated with one other instructional aide to prepare practice problems, teach a weekly review session, and hold weekly office hours for 100 students

University of Michigan Science Learning Center

Study Group Facilitator – Organic Chemistry II – 2 semesters (January – December 2017)

• Facilitated a two-hour weekly study session to help thirteen group members improve understanding of material
• Attended workshops on evidence-based teaching and learning techniques