I was a teaching assistant for CE 311S: Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers, a required undergraduate course taken mostly by sophomores and juniors in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, taught by Dr. Stephen D. Boyles, in Spring 2025 and Fall 2025. In both semesters, I led weekly lab sections, held weekly office hours, prepared the slides for every lab session, prepared assignment solutions, and assisted with grading. In 2025, I also earned the Engineering Teaching Assistant Certificate from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Each lab opened with a short review of the week’s lecture and a few worked examples. Students then solved worksheet problems in teams of two or three while I moved between the groups to help them work through the concepts, and at the end of the lab I solved the problems on the board. Before each exam, I ran review sessions and held additional office hours.
CE 311S: Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers
Fall 2025: Teaching Assistant, lab section C
I led one weekly one-hour discussion and problem-solving section of 20 students and held one weekly office hour. Consolidated student feedback rating: 4.22 / 5.00.
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Sep 8 | Conditional probability and Bayes’ rule |
| Sep 15 | Combinatorics |
| Sep 22 | Random variables and special discrete distributions |
| Sep 29 | Expected value and variance |
| Oct 6 | Continuous random variables |
| Oct 13 | Special continuous distributions |
| Oct 20 | Joint distributions |
| Oct 27 | Covariance, correlation, and the central limit theorem (exam review) |
| Nov 3 | Confidence intervals |
| Nov 10 | One-sided confidence intervals and intervals for the standard deviation |
| Nov 17 | Hypothesis testing |
| Dec 1 | Linear regression |
| Dec 8 | Final exam review |
Spring 2025: Teaching Assistant, lab sections C and D
I led two weekly one-hour discussion and problem-solving sections of 20 students each, held two weekly office hours, and assisted with a major redesign of the course. Consolidated student feedback rating: 4.02 / 5.00.
| Topic | Section C (Wed) | Section D (Fri) |
|---|---|---|
| Descriptive statistics | Jan 22 | Jan 24 |
| Probability, conditional probability, total probability, and Bayes’ rule | Jan 29, Feb 5 | Jan 31 |
| Combinatorics | Feb 12 | Feb 7 |
| Continuous random variables | Feb 26 | Feb 28 |
| Special continuous distributions | Mar 5 | Mar 7 |
| Joint probability distributions | Mar 12 | Mar 14 |
| Exam review | Mar 26 | Mar 26 |
| Central limit theorem and confidence intervals | Apr 2 | Mar 28 |
| More confidence intervals | Apr 9 | Apr 11 |
| Hypothesis testing | Apr 16 | Apr 18 |
Lab materials are shared with students through Canvas and are not posted here.