Alejandra Uranga

Teaching

Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 31-268
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

E-mail: auranga@mit.edu

Teaching

Recipient of the 2009 MIT Institute Graduate Student Council Teaching Award for the School of Engineering. This award is given each year to one professor or teaching assistant from each school, for excellence in teaching a graduate level course" (quotation from the MIT Institute Awards website).

Suppervision of graduate students

Master students, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Co-suppervision of Alex Espitia (September 2011 - present), Michael Lieu (September 2012 - present), Nina Siu (September 2012 - present)

Courses

Teaching Assistant - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 16.930 Advanced Topics in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (webpage) - Spring 2009
- 2.097J/6.339J/16.920J Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (webpage) - Fall 2007, Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Mech295 Fundamentals of Engineering 2 - Summer 2006
- Mech220 Mechanics of Solids 1 - Summer 2005
- Mech443 and Mech541 Advanced Thermodynamics - Spring 2006
- Mech345 Mechanics of Fluids 1 - Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant - Euro American Institute of Technology, Sophia Antipolis, France
- MAE2081 Applied Mechanics: Statics - Summer 2003
- PHY2091 Physics Laboratory 1 - Summer 2003

Other

Supervision of MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
9 students total for periods ranging between one and three semesters
Academic Tutor at the Academic Support Center
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
Tutor for all courses in the B.S. in Aerospace Engineering curriculum, Jan. 2003 - May 2004

Last updated May 15, 2013.