Teaching

I am a firm believer in learning-by-teaching.

Some key lessons that I learned over the past few years of working as a trainer in industry or teaching assistant in school:

• Use humor (BEST remedy to keep audience awake!)
• Use day life examples
• Ask questions and tell stories
• Limit jargon, acronym, and equations (I am a big fan of mathematical equations but a lot of people hate them …)

Some of my past teaching experience:

ArcelorMittal Globale R&D, 2021-11-09

• Trainer for a 3-hour lecture on liquid steel processing, thermodynamic, and kinetics for 28 steelmaking professionals
• Instructor rating: 3.91 (out of 4)
• Feedback from trainees
  • Mr. Tang did a great job making everything understandable. He made it very interesting.
  • Excellent native speaker, knowledgeable and informative.
  • Best instructor, clear and knowledgeable.
  • Very good and tried to bring to a understandable level.
  • Very good. Used humor and day life example to explain difficult technical matters.
  • Best instructor so far. Great job.

ArcelorMittal Globale R&D, 2019-10-15

• Trainer for a 3-hour lecture on liquid steel processing and alloying
• Instructor rating: 3.8 (out of 4)
• Feedback from trainees
  • Good efforts on his early course. Very well explanation of overall operation of steel making.
  • Ming rocks! Love the humor he tied into the presentation.
  • Has excellent energy and makes presentation fun to learn from. Had much material to squeeze in short amount of time .
  • With the process of Gewan Yun and the strength of Lubu. Great teacher.
  • Great job taking us along with his journey of discovery into making steel.

Carnegie Mellon University, 2014-2017

• Teaching Assistant for 5 graduate courses in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Courses include: Thermodynamics, Kinetics of Metallurgical Reactions and Processes, Solidification Processing, and Process Design
• Coached lab projects, graded assignments, and provided feedback