Tie (Ty) Zheng

Graduate School, Syracuse University                                                                                                          Fall 2018 & 2019

Teaching Mentor for 2018 and 2019 Teaching Assistant Orientation

Responsibilities:

• Organized and held “Motivating Students” and “Utilizing Technology in Classroom” presentations

• Facilitated activities of small group sessions for new international and domestic TAs

• Led the Micro-teaching sessions, encouraged discussion and peer evaluation

• Interviewed international TAs for English Language Assessment

 

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University                               Sep 2017 - May 2019

Teaching Assistant for Graduate Courses

• CIE-631 Classical and Matrix Structural Analysis

• CIE-633 Finite Element Analysis

• CIE-636 Plastic Design of Steel Structures

Responsibilities:

• Held weekly office hours (4 hours/week), provided help to students with homework problems, assignments, as well as engineering and mathematical software application

• Attended lectures and kept record of notes and handouts

• Graded and recorded quiz, homework and exam

• Organized and held a 3-hour ABAQUS Tutorial session, as well as made an online YouTube video

• Mentored students in their term projects by providing help and instructions

 

Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Courses

• CIE-331 Analysis of Structures and Materials

• CIE-475 Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (Senior Design)

• CIE-500 Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Responsibilities:

• Held weekly office hours (4 hours/week), provide help to students with homework problems, lab assignments, individual project (CIE-500), as well as group project (CIE-475)

• Led weekly Computer Lab sessions for teaching technical software (CIE-331)     

• Designed and summarized the evaluation forms for Senior Design (CIE-475) 

• Organized and held “Cost Estimation using RSMeans” presentation (CIE-475)

• Delivered lectures on theoretical and technical course materials

• Served as a panel member in evaluating the oral and written reports for senior design projects, working with the other TA and under the supervision of three faculty members for Senior Design

• Served as an executive member for the final oral presentation event for Senior Design

• Helped in proctoring and grading the exams 

 

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University College, Syracuse University                                                                                  Summer 2017, 2018 & 2019

Teaching Assistant and Partial Instructorfor Three Programs

• SCN-036 Civil and Environmental Engineering

• SCN-037 Aerospace Engineering

• SCN-038 Renewable and Alternate Energy Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Attended lectures in the morning session, cooperated in discussion and class activities

• Helped the Professor in recordkeeping, as well as tracked active attendance and group work activities

• Delivered lectures on “Introduction to Bridges”, “Renewable Energy”, “Stress and Strain”, “Hydrogen Car” etc. in the afternoon sessions

• Helped students with homework problems and software application

• Provided help in managing the lab sessions: building paper truss bridges, doing tensile and compressive test, designing and building high power rockets.

• Helped in preparing the testing field and scoring the Rocket Launch Tests

• Coordinated the campus tour and the trip to the field  

 

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Physics Department, Syracuse University                                                                                                          Spring 2017 

Teaching Assistant

• PHY-211 General Physics I

Responsibilities:

• Held weekly recitations (6 recitations/week) and review sessions for previous courses

• Provided help in homework problems per week, as well as organized group exams once a month

• Graded and recorded homework and group exams

• Helped in proctoring and grading exams