Experience

Teaching Experience

Graduate teaching assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-present

  • CEE 3000 Civil Engineering Systems, Fall 2014
    • Held office hours weekly and extra sessions for homework and exam preparation
    • Led in-class practice
    • Gave and graded homework assignments
    • Provided solutions to homework assignments, practice exam problems, and exams
    • Awarded the Bill Schultz Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
    • Finalist of the Georgia Tech CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (will compete in spring 2015)
    • Received 4.9/5.0 overall effectiveness rating from the Teaching Assistant Opinion Survey (TAOS)
  • CEE 6621 GIS in Transportation, Spring and Fall, 2013
    • Gave introductory and advanced GIS lectures such as projection, ArcGIS Python Add-ins, spatial data analysis, and geostatistics
    • Led lab discussions

Teaching Assistant Fellow, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), Georgia Tech, 2015-present

  • Selected as one of the ten CETL TA Fellows who led the institute-wide TA orientation for 2015-2016 academic year
  • Led a group of new TAs through orientation sessions, including a body and voice workshop, a roles and responsibility session, and a policies and procedures session to help prepare new TAs for the fall 2015 semester

Graduate Mentor, National Science Foundation – Collaborative Research Experiences in Advanced Technology and Engineering (NSF-CREATE) Program, Georgia Tech Savannah, summer 2011

  • Advised student John Paul Moore on his research that quantifies water hold capacity and hydroplaning hazards of asphalt pavement surfaces using the ridge-to-valley depth characteristics of the surface

Full-time teaching assistant, National Taiwan University, 2008-2010

  • Assisted transportation related courses including Transportation Engineering, Transportation Systems, Engineering Statistics, and Engineering Economics
  • Assisted core civil engineering courses including Civil Engineering Materials, Engineering Mathematics, Fluid Engineering Experiments, Environmental Engineering, and Applied Mechanics
  • Designed and reviewed exams and assignments, instructed laboratory experiments, instruct lectures occasionally, held office hours, tutored students with additional needs

Science and math tutor for high school students, 2002-2007

Director (2004) and instructor, National Taiwan University Fellowship Lanyu Educational Camp, 2002-2005

  • Taught tribal aboriginal children age from 3 to 18
  • Design and taught active learning courses in basic science, math, Chinese, computer science, finance, ethics, and music
  • Visited families and conducted annual survey to better understand children’s background and in-class behavior, and to build long-term relationships with children and their families
  • Kept record of each child for better classroom control, being awareness of the diversity and specific needs he/she may have

 

Leadership
  • President, American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) Georgia Tech Chapter, 2015-present
  • Treasurer, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Georgia Tech Chapter, 2015-present
  • Technology Chair, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Georgia Tech Chapter, 2014-2015
  • Vice President of Finance, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Georgia Tech Chapter, 2013-2014
  • Treasurer, Women’s Transportation Seminar Georgia Tech Chapter, 2013-2014
Committee
  • Communications Coordinator and Member, TRB Standing Committee on Signing and Marking Materials (AHD55), 2015-present
  • Co-chair (2014), Secretary (2012-2013), and Webmaster, Taiwanese Transportation Technical Information Exchange (TIE) Meeting Organizing Committee, 2012-present
  • Publicity Chair, 8th Annual Inter-university Symposium on Infrastructure Management (AISIM) Planning Committee, 2011-2012 (also the Web Manager)

 

 

Professional Membership
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2011-present
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), 2011-present
  • American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE), 2013-present

 

Reviewer
  • ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2012-present
  • Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting & Transportation Research Record, 2012-present
  • Journal of Modern Transportation (JMTR), 2014-present
  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, 2010-present
  • GeoHubei International Conference, 2014
  • IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, 2010