Marissa K. Webber

Marissa K. Webber

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Teaching

Spring 2023: Climate Change Adaptation

Graduate Course, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2023

As a teaching assistant for this 7-week course, I helped to prepare and grade twice-weekly pre-class reading quizzes, twice-weekly in-class exercises and two homework assignments for a class of 33 PhD, Masters’, and Undergraduate students. I also helped to prepare and grade the final project. I assisted in designing various in-class exercises to help students remain engaged and encourage collaborative work, group discussions, and critical thinking in each class. I prepared and delivered two 80-minute lectures: one about the equations used when designing and adapting transportation drainage infrastructure to non-stationarities (such as land use change and climate change), focusing on the Rational Method and SCS method, and one about green infrastructure. I also held one hour of office hours once a week to assist students and answer questions about assignments and class material.

Spring 2022: Climate Change Adaptation

Graduate Course, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2022

As a teaching assistant for this 7-week course, I helped to prepare and grade twice-weekly pre-class reading quizzes, twice-weekly in-class exercises and two homework assignments for a class of 23 PhD, Masters’, and Undergraduate students. I also helped to prepare and grade the final project. I assisted in designing various in-class exercises to help students remain engaged and encourage collaborative work, group discussions, and critical thinking in each class. I prepared and delivered an 80-minute lecture about the equations used when designing and adapting transportation drainage infrastructure to non-stationarities (such as land use change and climate change), focusing on the Rational Method and SCS method. I also held one hour of office hours once a week to assist students and answer questions about assignments and class material.

Fall 2022: CEE Design

Undergraduate course, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2022

As a teaching assistant for this 14-week course, I assisted in advising students completing their capstone project. For this project, all students in the class worked together, integrating knowledge and experience from technical and professional skills acquired in the CEE undergraduate ABET-accredited curriculum. This year, students developed detailed designs for key elements of Little Negley Run at Larimer Park in Pittsburgh, including stormwater management, stream restoration, accessible trails, and a new set of stairs connecting streets through the park. I advised sub-groups within the class working on stormwater management using green/grey infrastructure within the park and accessible trails within the park.

Fall 2020: CEE Challenges: Design in a Changing World

Undergraduate course, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2020

As a teaching assistant for this 14-week course, our team of three teaching assistants helped to prepare and grade assignments for a hybrid (in person and remote) class of 27 Sophomore students. I assisted in brainstorming and executing three design or design-and-build projects for the class, with significant contribution to the third project about sensing and structural health monitoring with Arduinos I prepared and delivered a 15-minute in-class presentation to introduce students to Principles of Sustainable Engineering. I also held office hours once a week via Zoom.