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