Teaching
MSE 230 – Structure and Properties of Materials, Spring 2025 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
This course is the introductory materials engineering course here at Purdue largely taken by Sophomores in the MSE degree program and Sophomores/Juniors from other engineering degrees. I was responsible for two recitation sections, delivering weekly sessions to expand upon the lecture content. My sessions focused on contextualizing the theory in real-world application and reinforcing problem solving through tailored problem sets. I also wrote bi-weekly quizzes to assess student understanding and contributed to question writing for midterms and the final exam.
MSE 574 – Sports Engineering and Entreprenuership, Fall 2025 and 2026 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
This course is centered around a series of guest lecturers from across the sports industry (academics, founders, international federations, athletes). I aided in identifying, sequencing, and hosting these speakers for both in-person and virtual lectures. I also developed rubrics for the course assignments to provide students with more structured and clear feedback. The culminating project of this course is a business plan and pitch deck for a proposed sports engineering startup. During this process I had dialogue with students to narrow the scope of their projects and served as a sounding board for their excellent ideas. For the fall 2026 section I have designed a new assignment to give students the opportunity to analyze in/effective presentation techniques to implement in their own pitches.
MSE 499 – Research in Materials Engineering, Fall 2023-present (Graduate Mentor)
Since I began my graduate studies at Purdue I have had at least one undergraduate research mentee every semester. These students earn course credit for contributions to research projects at the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center. While these projects have largely contributed to my thesis, I make an effort for students to take ownership over a certain set of experiments or section of the project. In some cases these projects have been standalone or supported other lab initiatives.
I am honored to have recieved the Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for my contributions to these courses (Spring 2026).
Mentoring
Students:
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF)
- Drake Augustine, Kansas State ’27
- co-author on conference paper
- Cole Burnett, Purdue University ’28
- Nicolas Gomez, University of the Andes ’27
MSE 499 Undergraduate Research in Engineering
- Kyle Friedrich, Purdue University ’28 (1 semester)
- co-author on conference paper
- Megan Magee, Purdue University ’26 (3 semesters)
- co-author on conference paper
- Ozan Borowiak, Purude University ’27 (2 semesters)
- Lucas Goretta, Purdue University ’25 (3 semesters)
- awarded 2nd place virtual presentation at Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium
- Andrew Liu, Purdue Universty ’25 (2 semesters)
- awarded 2nd place virtual presentation at Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium
- Colin Reilly, Purdue University ’25 (2 semesters)
- co-author on journal publication
- Owen Plunkett, Purdue University ’24 (2 semesters)
- co-author on journal publication
- Yagmur Onder, Purdue University ’24 (2 semesters)
- incoming MsC in Sports Biomechanics at Loughborough University
- co-author on journal publication
Projects:
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF)
- Summer 2026 – Damping Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Tennis Racket Handle Pallets (Drake Augustine)
- Summer 2026 – Development of a Comfortable, Wearable, Cut-Resistant Hockey Neck Guard (Cole Burnett & Nicolas Gomez)
MSE 499 Undergraduate Research in Engineering
- Spring 2026 – Design and Manufacture of Additively Manufactured Handle Pallets (Megan Magee & Kyle Friedrich)
- Spring 2026 – Effectiveness of a Suspension System for Providing Enhanced Ski Comfort (Kashyap Vallur)
- Fall 2025 – Differences in Tennis Racket String Construction (Megan Magee & Ozan Borowiak)
- Spring 2025 – Feel Parameters of Tennis Rackets, A Historical Perspective (Lucas Goretta, Megan Magee, & Ozan Borowiak)
- Fall 2024 – Development of an Inertia Measurement Device for Tennis Rackets (Lucas Goretta, Andrew Liu, & Colin Reilly)
- Fall 2023 & Spring 2024 – Development of a Tuned Vibration Damper for Tennis Rackets (Colin Reilly, Lucas Goretta & Andrew Liu)
- Fall 2023 & Spring 2024 – The Effect of Tennis Racket Customization on Feel Parameters (Yagmur Onder & Owen Plunkett)
Mechanical Engineering Senior Design
- Obstacle Detection and Automatic Braking System for Crew Boats (Spring 2026)
- Nominated for Malott Innovation Award
- Vibration Analysis of Bicycle Handlebars (Spring 2025)
- 2nd Place Research Team at Mechanical Engineering Design Expo
- SmartServe Instrumented Tennis Racket (Spring 2024)
- Nominated for Malott Innovation Award
Sports Engineering Professional Masters Program Capstone (MSE 597)
I have also worked closely with several capstone groups in the Sports Engineering Professional Masters program. Projects this past spring (2026) are listed below.
- Development of a Platform for Bicycle Metrology (Evan Stack & Colin Scifert)
- Design of a New Ice Hockey Neck Guard (Vivienne Franke & Alexa Neilon)