Online Mechanical Engineering Tutor Andrew

I was a qualified chartered engineer working in industry before joining Higher Education. I subsequently spent nearly 30 years as a university lecturer teaching a range of engineering subjects. As a practising engineer, I have had considerable experience of “real life” engineering and I combine this into the academic side where ever possible. This helps to show students why it is necessary to master certain topics and puts essential parts of the “puzzle” in place, facilitating a fuller and faster learning.

A significant time as a tutor has taught me a great deal. Something that I have always worked to is that there is no such thing as a silly question. I know that no one fully understands everything the first time round and so I encourage student to question and to ask the same question again if need be.

I have a good grasp of the workings of Higher Education having recent and relevant experience of how exam boards work. I have attended exam boards at least once a year for almost 30 years and as a course Leader, I have also chaired a good number of these boards. I have also attended exam boards in other institutions in my role as an external examiner for Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture.

I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate students in the subject areas of Design, Computer Aided Design, Solid Mechanics (Stress Analysis) and Dynamics. I have been the module coordinator for the following University modules:

Engineering Design Year 1, 2 and 3 (L1, L2 and L3);
Solid Mechanics and Dynamics Year 1 (L4);
Computer Aided Design Year 2 and Year 3 (L5 and L6);
Structural Integrity (Masters module, L7), including Analysis of Composites;
Supervision of final year and postgraduate project students (L6 and L7).