I have taught two semesters - Winter 2005 & Winter 2006 - of ME 450, the University of Michigan's Capstone Senior Design course. The point of this course is to undertake a corporate, government, or university design project, begining with a paragraph statement and completing with a design and functional prototype. My role was to facilitate basic course logistics and lead five project teams (approx. 25 students total). I also organized a web-based survey approach to assigning team projects. During the Winter semester of 2005, I also organized the Design Expo, a college wide event displaying the results of project-based design courses.

"Ecodesign". Given in ME 455, Analytical Product Design, October 11th, 2006 & October 11th, 2007.

This lecture is focusd on (1) heuristic guidelines that students can easily use in their course projects and (2) a basic introduction to quantitative environmental analysis of product system designs, particularly Life Cycle Assessment.

"Game Theory basics and the Newton-Raphson method for Nonlinear Systems of Equations." Given in MATH 501, Applied Interdiscplinary Mathematics Seminar: Student Session, December 9th, 2005.

In these notes I cover some Game Theory basics with an eye towards implementation of discrete-decision games using best response iterations. I also describe how Fictitious Play can be used to solve discrete optimization problems (See Lambert, Epelman, & Smith; Operations Research 53(3):477-489, 2005 for more information on this idea, including a more advanced implementation for computationally intensive problems.).