If you’d like to be considered for a Teaching Assistant or Grader position, please fill out this google form as soon as possible: https://forms.gle/uMm3itkdAZHzyP4m8
Mechanical Engineering majors may use their work as a TA to count for credit, which can fulfill an Advisor Approved elective requirement (contingent on advisor approval). TAs and graders average no more than 10-12 hours of work per week (fluctuations in the workload will occur throughout the semester, but should not average more than that). Students who receive offers for TA positions should plan on being asked to offer office hours, lead discussion or lab sections, and possibly assist with grading. Additional specific or alternate TA tasks are decided by the instructor. TAs should plan to be available at least a week before the start of the semester through the grading of final exams.
Students who receive offers for grading positions will only be required to grade; no other TA tasks are required.
All first time TA’s and graders are required to attend a half-day training in mid-February offered by Engineering Learning Initiatives.
Grader positions are offered at a paid hourly rate. TA positions must be taken for credit if it is your first time TAing for MAE, otherwise they can be for credit or at a paid hourly rate.
There is no formal application process for a TA or grader position; you need only fill out the google form using the link above with the information requested in it. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Courses being offered in the spring that may need TA/Grader support:
ENGRI1510 Modeling and Simulation of Real-World Scientific Problems
ENGRD2020 Statics and Mechanics of Solids
MAE2030 Dynamics
MAE2250 Mechanical Synthesis
MAE3240 Heat Transfer
MAE3260 System Dynamics
MAE4130 Mechanics of Composite Structures
MAE4160 Spacecraft Technology and Systems Architecture
MAE4180 Autonomous Mobile Robots
MAE4220 Introduction to Internet of Things — Technology and Engagement
MAE4230 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics
MAE4510 Propulsion of Aircraft and Rockets
MAE4530 Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes
MAE4590 Introduction to Controlled Fusion: Principles and Technology
MAE4610 Entrepreneurship for Engineers
MAE4630 Advanced Product Design
MAE4670 Polymer Mechanics
MAE4770 Engineering Vibrations
MAE4850 Special Technical Elective – Design for Manufacture and Assembly
MAE4860 Automotive Engineering
MAE4950 Special Major-Approved – Design and Simulation of Multiphase Flows Systems
MAE4950 Special Major-Approved – Spacecraft Thermal Management
MAE5010 Future Energy Systems
MAE5210 Dimensional Tolerancing in Mechanical Design
MAE5260 Design for Manufacture and Assembly
MAE5830 Astronautic Optimization
MAE6040 Tribology and Surface Engineering
MAE6230 Computational Fluid Dynamics
MAE6260 Multiscale Computational Mechanics
MAE6310 Turbulence and Turbulent Flows
MAE6540 Plasmas for Propulsion
MAE6670 Soft Tissue Biomechanics II: Viscoelasticity and Phasic Theory
Sincerely,
Ashley Blank
Assistant Undergraduate Coordinator
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
