Fall 2011

• Instructor, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

[2 sections]

- Teaching a junior-level undergraduate course, Foundations of Engineering (EGN3000).
• Sole instructor and grader. • Prepared and presented all lectures, homework assignments, exams. • Held regular office hours. • Helped students with group design projects. • Discussed about brainstorming sessions for new inventions, reverse engineering sessions, engineering issues, and written and oral communication. • I also took the initiative of conducting tours to different engineering labs. Many of the students of this class involved themselves in an ongoing research subsequently.

 The teaching method and the student project on design and fabrication of a solar oven from scratch was recognized by the Florida Energy Systems Consortium and published in USF Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) newsletter. (Link)

Summer 2012

• I-CAMP 2012 Summer School on Renewable & Sustainable Energy, Boulder, CO

■ Organic Photovoltaics ■ Nanoscale Photovoltaics ■ Chemical, Macromolecular, and Nanostructure Synthesis ■ Hybrid and Nanocomposites Materials ■ Quantum Chemical Design and High Performance Computing ■ Morphology Control and Characterization ■ Charge Transport and Recombination Kinetics ■ Exciton Dynamics ■ Ultrafast Photophysics ■ Thermodynamics of Photovoltaic Devices ■ 3rd Generation and Exotic Concepts ■ Plasmonics ■ Light Trapping and Optical Control ■ Nanoscale Characterization ■ Device Physics and Architecture ■ Photovoltaic Upscaling and Manufacturing ■ Solar Fuel Materials and Catalysts ■ Solar Fuel Systems Design ■ Artificial Photosynthesis ■ Biological Systems ■ Enzymatic and Bacterial Production of Biofuels ■ Economic Issues in Renewable Energy ■ Policy and Governance Issues in Renewable Energy ■ Societal Issues in Renewable Energy