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50% - Coordinate Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Lab Activities
- Coordinate undergraduate mechanical engineering teaching laboratory activities under the supervision of a faculty member
- Establish and/or maintain appropriate safety protocols in teaching laboratories.
- Assist faculty members in teaching and/or training of graduate teaching assistants for instruction of laboratory courses, as needed.
- Assist faculty members in setting up and dismantling hardware for both required and elective mechanical engineering laboratory courses.
- Assist faculty members and graduate teaching assistants who teach mechanical engineering courses with in-lecture demonstrations.
- Assist faculty in developing multimedia and technology resources for undergraduate laboratory courses and demonstration experiments, such as but not limited to the collection of data from remotely-located experiments and the analysis of the data in classroom settings.
- Assist students and faculty advisors in the operation of experiments, devices, and prototypes in cornerstone (freshman) and capstone (senior) design courses.
- Manage department technical laboratory staff and department teaching laboratory resources under the direction of the Department Chair
- Train mechanical engineering staff persons or students on the use of equipment.
- Assist faculty members in the training of Graduate Teaching and Research Assistants to use laboratory equipment.
- Collaborate with the departmental accountant to track teaching laboratory expenses.
- Order, install, and troubleshoot new and/or existing teaching laboratory equipment under the direction of the Department Chair.
- Coordinate access to and documentation of department resources and utilization through an online system.
- Assist student researchers in troubleshooting and maintaining equipment in research laboratories under the request and direction of the laboratory principal investigators, with approval of the Department Chair.
- Assist faculty members and the department staff in the setup, maintenance, and renovation of departmental laboratory spaces under the direction of the Department Chair.
- Other duties and projects as assigned by the Department Chair.