Teaching and Outreach
Teaching and mentoring students is a big focus of mine. I have had the privilege of teaching both and secondary and post-secondary levels. I also like to raise awareness about science through programs like Skype A Scientist.
Courses Taught
- MBA Program, University Canada West
- MGMT 641 Advanced Project Management
- MGMT 640 Project Management
- Invention 2 Innovation Program, Simon Fraser University
- Opportunity Identification and Assessment (2024, 2025)
- Science and Business Program, University of Waterloo
- SCBUS 122 Management of Business Organizations (2024)
- SCBUS 225 Organizational Behaviour in Scientific and Technical Workplaces (2024)
- SCBUS 323 Technology Development (2023, 2024)
- University of Toronto
- PHY 132 Introduction to Physics II (2024)
- APS 111 Engineering Strategies and Practices Communications Instructor (2023)
- APS 111 and APS 112 Engineering Strategies and Practices (2013, 2014 - TA)
- AER 406 Aircraft Design (2011, 2012 - TA)
- McGill University
- YCBS 276 Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurs (2023)
- UBC
- PHYS 158: Physics for Engineers II - Electricity and Magnetism (2022)
- PHYS 131: Energy and Waves (2022)
- Selkirk College
- ENGR 100 Engineering Design and Communication I (2021)
- ENGR 101 Engineering Design and Communication II (2022)
- University of Toronto Engineering Outreach Office
- A Mission to Mars (2017-2019)
- Engineering Product Design (2016, 2018-2019)
- From the Ground Up: Introductions to Flight (2012, 2013, 2016-2017, 2019)
- Design, Build, Fly (2012-2013, 2016, 2018)
- Magnetic Materials (2015-2016)
- Engineering Design Tools (2013, 2015)
- Foundations of Project Management and Entrepreneurship (2012-2013)
- Aerospace: Designs for the Future (2011)
Students Supervised
| Name | Project | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Pablo Javier Herrera Jofre | Improving safety lessons learned utilization in the mining sector | Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Innosolve Student Team | I created this team, which included 15+ students working on 4+ commercialization and research projects. I specifically mentored wildfire prediction system (later incubated as Firebird), materials for protection against space radiation, and a grocery budget optimization app | Sep 2023 - Mar 2025 |
| APSC-103 Capstone Project | Queens University & Release mechanism concept design for the PEEKBot lunar rover | Jan - Apr 2023 |
| Dust Mitigation Capstone Project (fourth year), Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal | Dust removal mechanism design for the PEEKBOT lunar rover radiator | Sep 2022 - Apr 2023 |
| Arielle Ainabe | Development of a nanocomposite based on Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNT) for radiation protection in space | Sep - Dec 2018 |
| Gal Meartsi | Analysis of Space Suite Subsystems | Sep - Dec 2018 |
| Adrianna van Brenen | Applications of Lunar and Martian soil | Sep - Dec 2016 |
| Anna Vanderveen, and Yasmine El-Bakri | Why is radiotherapy less available to developing countries, and how can we fix this issue? | May - Aug 2016 |