Course Title: Environmental Science and Sustainability (ENVIRSCI 1021G 551)
Designed the entire course outline from scratch, ensuring that the course content connected engineering, policies, and sciences.
Designed all assignments and exams, ensuring that they were aligned with course objectives and provided students with opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
Facilitated anonymous student feedback and used this feedback to improve teaching practices throughout the course.
Course Outline: ENVIRSCI 1021G 551 (DSouza)
Facilitating various pedagogical programs such as Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATP), Teaching Assistant (TA) day, and Teaching in Canadian Classroom (TCC) offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Lead a variety of sessions that focus on providing students with feedback, designing effective lectures, grading best practices, and facilitating labs and classroom discussions.
Mentoring program participants during small group microteaching sessions
Microteaching Groups (1-6)
Course Handled: Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics (High School and University level)
Responsibilities:
One-on-one teaching students at various levels
Preparing lessons and correction of homeworks
Prepare and correct tests
Indentify students' ability to handle learning and assessing the various learning needs
Certification program offered by Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Western University. There are five components required to complete this certification:
Microteaching requirement;
Attendance to 10 future prof series sessions;
Teaching mentor program;
Teaching dossier;
Course redesign and research project on teaching and learning
Certification program offered by a collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Teaching at the Western University. The certification includes the culmination of the following courses:
Delivered a graduate level lecture on 'Effective Waste Management Strategies: An introduction to Circular Economy' to a group of graduate students and peers. The lecture involved the implementation of various active learning strategies. Constructive feedback was provided by the students and peers at the end of the lecture.
Completed a 20-hour ATP course offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Western University.
The program included course design methodologies, student assessment with a deep focus on active learning methodology.
Two microteaching sessions during the ATP session provided a platform to receive constructive feedback from peers and other mentors.
Capstone project title: Active Learning: Its role in content delivery and understanding subjects of Chemical Engineering
Successfully completed a comprehensive Teaching Assistant Training Program offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Western University. The training program consisted of two microteaching sessions and hands on training in methodologies involved in University Teaching and Learning.
Delivered an invited guest lecture on "Recent Technological Advances in the Field of Sustainability and Environmental Engineering" at R V College of Engineering, Bangalore – India
June 2021
Delivered an invited lecture on "Numerical Investigations of Bubble Column Reactor Hydrodynamics" to graduate level students for the 'Industrial 3-Phase Reactors' course at Western University, London - Canada
July 2019