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Lecturer — MATLAB

teaching sophomore level MATLAB course to undergrade mechanical engineering students at CSU Fullerton

→ lecture delivery, homework/exam design, mentorship, student assessment 📊

→ aug 2025 - dec 2025

role

I was the instructor of record for EGME 205 — Digital Computation, section 20304, at Cal State Fullerton, Fall 2025, teaching Tuesdays/Thursdays. Undergrads needed a practical bridge between classroom theory and the numerical tools they’d actually use as engineers, so I built and taught a MATLAB-based course covering applied programming and numerical methods for mechanical engineering problems, from algorithm development through data processing and visualization.

outcome

a class of students who can now actually open MATLAB and get something useful out of it.

lap time simulation project

the class project had students build a lap time simulation in MATLAB. The underlying algorithm was based on James Hakewill’s lap time simulation approach.

to keep the project scoped to a semester and teach students how to build on top of existing code rather than write everything from scratch, Saud Khan’s lap time simulation algorithm was used as boilerplate for students to extract data from and extend.

kind words from students

“Thank you as well for an amazing semester. I genuinely appreciated all the guidance and support, especially with the Carbon fiber studd haha. You were a top-tier professor, and I truly hope I have the opportunity to be a student in one of your classes again in the future.”

“...EGME 205 class. I am sending this email because I want to thank you for this semester. This was my first semester at CSUF and I was initially a bit intimidated by this class. I am thankful for the way you structured your lectures, for having your PowerPoints accessible to students, and for including many visuals in your presentations. You made this class enjoyable, and I feel that I learned not only MATLAB, but also about the engineering industry through your shared experience.”

“Thank you again professor it was a pleasure being your student at first I didn’t like coding but honestly you made me enjoy this class by far then my other classes! Hope to stay in touch I’ll send you my LinkedIn once again thank you for being a caring and understanding professor we need more like you especially in this field! Good Luck to you in your career and teaching nothing but the best!”