Teaching / Advising

In addition to my Sandia duties, I hold an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Physic s department and occupy an office in the Fusion Technology Institute at UW-Madison. From there, I'm involved in various teaching and advising activities.

Teaching

Since I work full-time for Sandia and am pretty involved in advising and working with students on various research projects, I don't do nearly as much teaching as I'd like (when I have time for it, I usually enjoy it!). I've done some teaching here at UW-Madison:

NEEP 699: Parallel and High-Performance Computing
EMA405: Practicum in Finite Elements (unit on Mesh Generation, day1, day2, day3)

and have also taught a number of short courses on various geometry- and mesh-related topics (see my resume for the exhaustive list).

Advising

Although I'm not allowed to be the sole advisor for students at UW-Madison, I co-advise a number of grad students, and employ as student hourlies a number of graduate and undergrad students. Some current and former students I'm working or have worked with:

Current:

Brian Kiedrowski (started 9/05, MS NEEP ~5/07?, co-advisor Prof. Paul Wilson, EP): CAD-based Monte Carlo applications
Liz Houser (started 6/05, PhD NEEP ~5/10?, co-advisor Prof. Paul Wilson, EP): CAD-based Monte Carlo methods
MengKuo Wang (PhD NEEP expected 12/05, co-advisor Prof. Douglass Henderson, EP): CAD-based Monte Carlo methods
Tom Rickmeyer (BS NEEP w/honers expected 5/06): Dual-based hexahedral mesh modification
Brian Boeckmann (BS NEEP expected 12/05): MOAB code development

Alumni:

Hong-Jun Kim (PhD ME 11/05, co-advisor Prof. John Uicker, ME): Parallel tetrahedral mesh generation (Woongjin Coway Development, South Korea)
Yong Lu (MS ME 12/00; PhD ABD, co-advisor Prof. Rajit Gadh, ME): Feature-based geometry decomposition (Solidworks Corp.)
Sarah Knoop (BS Math, MS CS): Dual-based hexahedral mesh modification (T.J. Watson Research, IBM)
Wes Gill (BS ME 12/02): Settings handler & other misc. code work in CUBIT (Sub Zero Corp)
Joel Kopp (BS EMA ): Solidworks CGM port (Harley Davidson Corp)