Teaching
Courses taught at the University of South Florida:
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Fall 2006: ESI4312 Deterministic
Operations Research
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Conducting a teaching innovation
project in which new teaching material is designed to aid
conventional classroom teaching on operations research solution
techniques. This project is currently funded by the Center for 21st
Century Teaching Excellence at the University of South Florida. (Project
proposal; A
poster
presented by my REU student in the
2006 National
Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR)).
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20 Students are divided into two
groups based on a learning style survey. The two groups are learning
with teaching innovation material (experiment group) and learning
through book chapters (control group).
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Several lectures are split into two
35-min sessions. Students in each group only attend one session.
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Samples of developed innovative
lecture notes:
the
graphic simplex method,
the
essence of the simplex method,
the simplex
method in tableau form, and
the shortest
route problem.
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Developing a 5-min class session
introducing OR applications in real world to motivate students'
enthusiasm.
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Spring 2006: EIN6936 Nonlinear and
Integer Programming
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It is the first time that an
advanced PhD/MS-level optimization course is offered at USF.
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The course will be split to two in
Spring 2007. I will develop and offer both courses.
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Average Student Assessment of
Instruction Score: 4.11 / 5.0
- Fall 2005: ESI4312 Deterministic Operations Research
Courses taught at the University of Pittsburgh:
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Fall 2004: ENGR20 Probability and
Statistics for Engineers I
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Design and teach my own section in
which 62 students from various engineering departments are enrolled.
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Effectiveness as a Teacher: 2.9 /
5.0.
- Summer 2004: IE3095 Stochastic Programming
- co-teach this PhD-level course with Professor Andrew Schafer.