Teaching Statement

My teaching philosophy is defined by the engineering principle of "Kaizen", continuous improvement. My mission is to be a student-focused educator by adapting Higher Education pedagogical principles and constantly improving my teaching practice.

I am currently completing my PgCertHE (July 2026), towards the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Beyond the classroom, I am committed to enhancing the student experience through coordination and active engagement. Currently, I am the Year 3 Coordinator for Mechanical Engineering at Swansea University. This role allows me to liaise between the programme director, teaching staff, and student representatives to uphold quality, act on feedback, and ensure consistency across the curriculum.

I am deeply committed to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). I prioritise inclusivity by ensuring materials are accessible, offering varied teaching approaches and assessment formats such as using scaffolding techniques and blended learning (e.g. the flipped method). 

EG-M122 Group Project (Mechanical, Materials & EEE): 2025- present

Term: TB1 & TB2 (Year 4)

Module Co-ordinator
This module enables students to participate in a group activity involving a multi-disciplinary approach to achieve a solution to a specific engineering problem. In most instances it will involve either direct interaction with industry or will be an industrially-related project. Beyond providing a technical solution, the project will also include the development of a business plan proposal. 

EG-M36 Reliability and Maintenance Engineering: 2024- present

Term: TB2 (Year 4)

Module Co-ordinator
The module will provide an overview of the systems engineering aspects of monitoring, control, reliability, survivability, integrity and maintenance. Areas of interest to be studied will encompass an engineering application from mechanical, marine and aerospace. The important underlying systems engineering concepts on the plan-do-check-act cycle, reliability in relation to quality engineering, design considerations on system survivability, integrity and maintenance will be highlighted and demonstrated with relevant examples. Of particular example will be looked at, including but not limited to marine and aerospace applications such as a pump, propulsion subsystem and commercial satellite solar array subsystem (combination of series and parallel systems). Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and Load (stress) - Strength analysis will be introduced, and the important links between the type of failure, failure rate and safety margin will be quantified.

EGH-314 Design for Reliability: 2024- present

Term: TB2 (Year 3)

Module Co-ordinator
This course is designed to equip participants with the quality and reliability engineering concepts and skills that will be needed by technically trained engineers within industrial companies to establish highly reliable and cost effective systems. The course will give introduction to the system engineering aspects of monitoring, control, reliability, survivability, integrity and maintenance. Areas of interest to be studied will encompass an engineering application from mechanical, marine and aerospace. The principles of 'Design for Reliability' will be highlighted and demonstrated with relevant examples.

Previous Teaching 

EG-A266 Digital Manufacturing (Swansea University) - 2024-2025

Term: TB1 (Year 2)
Within this module students will learn about digital manufacturing, from its role in concept development through to prototype production and small batch manufacture. They will be introduced to the way in which manufacturing is changing and the future possibilities presented by emerging digital manufacturing technologies. They will work individually to fabricate a digital manufacturing machine (3DPrinter), which they will calibrate and produce test parts on, as well as their own design of a 3DPrinted engineering design.