I work with RIT's engineering laboratory courses, where students use instrumentation, LabVIEW, Excel, and physical experiments to investigate mechanical engineering principles.
My role combines helping students during experiments with developing and troubleshooting laboratory software and equipment. I also work with faculty on new experiments before they are introduced in class.
I've supported more than 35 students, developed LabVIEW code for laboratory activities, and helped build electrical and data-acquisition setups for new instructional projects.
Faculty were developing new experiments that required software to collect and process measurements.
I worked on LabVIEW code based on the intended experiment, connecting the software with the measurement requirements and hardware configuration.
Contributed to developing and testing software for new instructional laboratory setups.
The proposed experiments also required working circuits, wiring, and data-acquisition equipment.
I helped assemble the electrical setups, connect measurement hardware, and troubleshoot software-hardware communication.
Supported the development of physical laboratory setups that could be tested before student use.
Working as a TA has made me better at explaining technical concepts and identifying where someone is getting stuck. It has also reminded me how important it is to understand a system before troubleshooting it.
Developing new experiments has been especially useful because I get to work on both the code and the physical hardware rather than treating them as separate problems.