This page lists the side jobs I was employed while I was a Postgraduate student (University of Edinburgh) or a student (graduate/undergraduate) at Jacobs University. 01.2008 – 12.2009 School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Demonstrator/Grader for the following courses Numerical methods in computing – responsibilities
included supporting the instructor
during the lab session by answering student’s questions about numerical methods
and general support with MATLAB and grading the exams. Engineering-1 workshop – this was a transdisciplinary engineering workshop, where I was involved in enabling discussions among the group of students and providing technical support to enable them to present their fact/ideas in the form of posters, reports and presentations (training in scientific communication). Carried out research in the area of interference coordination in self-organising ad hoc wireless network. During this time, I also lectured the module ‘Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing’ as a part of graduate course ‘Advanced
Wireless Communications’ offered by Prof. Harald Haas. Around this time, I also installed, maintained and provided user support for the group server
running apache web server and sub–version (SVN) repository for the
Cellular and Wireless Communications (CWC) group. In addition, designed
the CWC group web site template using CSS and HTML.
09.2004 – 02.2006
Jacobs University Bremen, Teaching assistant for the following courses General Electrical Engineering I and II (Sep. 2004
– Feb. 2006) and Microelectronics I (Feb. 2005 – May 2005). Responsibilities
included supporting the course instructor by delivering tutorials, preparing
homework sheets and solutions, grading quizzes and exams. 07.2005
– 08.2005 Jacobs University Bremen, Student
assistant in microelectronics lab (research lab of Prof. Werner Bergholz) Investigated methods to enhance overall efficiency of solar cells. Improved a hardware prototype to detect impurities in silicon wafers using infra-red light. 06.2004 – 08.2004 Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Dwingeloo, Summer student (Internship), Prepared the radio images
of the sky as a part of testing and calibration of the prototype test station
of the LOFAR radio telescope. 09.2003 – 05.2004 Jacobs University Bremen, Student assistant in Robotics lab (research lab of Prof. Andreas Birk) Assembling and testing of rescue robot circuits. |