Teaching Work

It's part of my job at Graz University of Technology to do some classes.

Active

Currently I am doing the following ones

• Tutorial Strength of Materials (304.050 - winter)

  This tutorial is attending our main class at our institute - Strength of Materials (304.001 & 304.003 - winter). For people interested in the content (especially for those doing the exam) visit the TeachCenter class.

• Finite Element Method - Computer Exercises (304.082 - summer)

  I've created this class during the winter term of 2009. We are implementing a finite element code from the scratch during this class. At the end we are able to calculate plane problems in elasticity with quadrileteral elements. I am trying to realise the stuff you hear in our Finite Element Method class. Of class there is a TeachCenter class too.

  The code design is based on my project SOOFEA. A table of content and the preface of the script can be found here.

No longer teaching myself

I've also worked on some more classes which I am not teaching myself any longer

• Symbolic Manipulation in the area of Strength of Materials (304.080 & 304.081 - summer)

  This class was first given by Martin Schmidt at our institute and is done since several years. The main target is teaching analytical solutions for problems of elasticity. As the algebraic expressions get long very easily we are using computer algebra systems. Martin developed this class based on Mathematica. Due to some licensing issue I redesigned the class for application of Maple during the winter term 2008. The first year I did this class myself - now my colleagues teach it. You can find a TeachCenter class too.

Others

Last but not least I have invested a lot of time and effort into the script of our class

• Finite Element Method (304.006 & 304.007 - summer)

and of course I am heavily involved in teaching

• Strength of Materials (304.001 & 304.003 - winter)