Teaching Assistant (Computational Specialist)

The Department of the Built Environment is looking for a passionate Computational Design Specialist to support education and teaching activities within the department, collaborating with the Architectural Design and Engineering Chair, the Unit of Structural Engineering and Design and Information Systems in the Built Environment.

The Computational Specialist will provide teaching support, technical guidance and training to designated courses and student groups, to support design studios, seminars and other courses. Core responsibilities are anchored exclusively around teaching, advising and training students in computational approaches, hands-on tutorials as well as helping with the building up of tutorial content for a computational training platform.
At TU/e we encourage a creative and innovative approach towards teaching. Strong communication skills are key with this undertaking as is an eagerness to learn and extend existing skills.

Skills and Qualifications:

We are looking for a colleague who likes to contribute to education and to the direct development of students by a practice teaching methodology. Therefor you need to have a proven computational design experience in an academic or professional setting and be able to clearly articulate computational strategies in an understandable manner for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Necessary skills:

• Advanced knowledge and experience of 3D modelling software Rhino.
• Grasshopper 3D with correlated plugins with a focus on additive manufacturing with clay/concrete (custom gcode generation etc.).
• Knowledge of parametric optimisation strategies.
• And Robotic Control for additive manufacturing.

Advantageous:

• C#, Python is advantageous.