teaching

CE-ENGIN 260: Probability and Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers

Teaching Assistant — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Fall 2024, Fall 2025

• Taught classes, led lab sessions, and delivered a full lecture; held weekly office hours
• Supported cohorts of approximately 160 students per semester
• Graded exams and prepared detailed solution guides and rubric-based feedback

CE-ENGIN 310: Transportation Systems

Teaching Assistant — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Fall 2023

• Held office hours and prepared problem sets on traffic flow theory, capacity analysis, and signal control

Multiple Undergraduate Courses

Teaching Assistant — University of Khartoum, Sudan — November 2018 – December 2020

Taught and gave tutorials for undergraduate students across several civil engineering disciplines:

• Environmental Engineering — water treatment processes, sewage systems, and lab sessions on water quality analysis
• Highway and Transportation Engineering — road design, sight distance, and traffic flow
• Strength of Materials — stress-strain relationships and mechanical properties
• Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures — reinforcement detailing and structural load calculations
• Theory of Structures — structural analysis techniques and stability assessments

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program

Research Mentor — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Summers 2023, 2024, 2025

• Andrew Ruger (Grinnell College) — Survey data quality and micromobility mapping; bot detection in incentivized online surveys
• Geehan Altayb (Howard University) — Bicycle map features and their influence on cycling behavior
• Vivian Rost-Nasshan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) — Vehicular delay patterns using network topology and demographic data

Independent Research Mentorship

Research Mentor — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Spring 2026

• Henry Bell (UMass Amherst) — Comprehensive literature review on barriers to cycling