"I am an electrical engineer with a Ph.D. I taught college level classes and worked for MIT as a research engineer. I love math and technical programming. I love helping students understand the "why" behind the mathematical concepts and programming patterns so that they can become more comfortable and confident with these subjects. I get my enthusiasm for teaching from my father who tutored numerous children, including me. I would like to follow in his steps and share my knowledge with students and hopefully make them more comfortable and confident in math and programming so that they can keep learning and be successful.

During my tutoring experience, I have noticed a couple things that keep students from being successful learners:

1) Students tend to think too complex and miss the basics. I think this is because they think that "math is hard" and the solution must be a complex one.

2) Students most of the time miss the "why" behind concepts and try to memorize strategies. This leads to confusion as they try different strategies. As they fail to find the right one, they start stressing and get more confused.

I teach my students

1) The "why" behind the concepts. In more mathematical terms, they will learn the "proof" of concepts and will not need to memorize strategies

2) How to dissect a problem into smaller basic parts so that they can formulate the solution no matter how complex the problem is

3) How to look at everyday problems through a mathematical lens and write down these problems with the language of math

4) How to identify patterns in problems

You can find examples of my strategies in my answers to "Ask an Expert" questions.

I have 20+ years of MATLAB and Simulink experience. I have helped many college and graduate level students in various fields in their MATLAB programming projects and homework. My technical background enables me to turn problems in diverse fields into MATLAB code. I have helped students in the following fields:

* Electrical Engineering

* Chemical Engineering

* Mechanical" less...