{"id":17,"date":"2025-07-15T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:34:27","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"17\" class=\"elementor elementor-17\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ea258a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2ea258a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db9b55c elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"db9b55c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.spin-hero{max-width:900px;margin:0 auto;text-align:center;padding:0 10px;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;}.spin-hero-kicker{color:#B3A369;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.18em;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0 0 16px;}.spin-hero-title{color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;font-size:clamp(2rem,4.5vw,2.9rem);line-height:1.15;margin:0 0 16px;}.spin-hero-sub{color:rgba(255,255,255,0.8);font-size:clamp(1rem,1.6vw,1.15rem);line-height:1.75;max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;}.spin-hero-cta{display:flex;justify-content:center;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin-top:30px;}.spin-hero-cta a{display:inline-block;padding:13px 26px;border-radius:6px;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;transition:background .2s,color .2s,border-color .2s;}.spin-btn-gold{background:#B3A369;color:#13294b;font-weight:700;border:1.5px solid #B3A369;}.spin-btn-gold:hover{background:#c9bb85;border-color:#c9bb85;color:#13294b;}.spin-btn-ghost{background:transparent;color:#ffffff;font-weight:600;border:1.5px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.55);}.spin-btn-ghost:hover{border-color:#B3A369;color:#B3A369;}.spin-hero-cta a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #ffffff;outline-offset:2px;}<\/style><div class=\"spin-hero\"><p class=\"spin-hero-kicker\">SPIN Group<\/p><h1 class=\"spin-hero-title\">Teaching<\/h1><p class=\"spin-hero-sub\">Hands-on engineering education that pairs conceptual depth with design, measurement, and real hardware.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f00b0d6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f00b0d6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61aa8e0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61aa8e0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3999db7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3999db7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;color:#B3A369;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 14px 0;\">CURRENT, SUMMER 2026<\/p><h2 style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 8px 0;\">ECE 2031: Digital Design Laboratory<\/h2><p style=\"color:#666;font-size:15px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\">Georgia Institute of Technology, School of ECE<\/p><p style=\"color:#444;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;margin:0 0 20px 0;\">Hands-on laboratory complement to ECE 2020 in which students design, build, and verify digital systems. Topics span combinational and sequential logic, finite state machines, datapath\/controller design, and processor architecture, implemented and tested on FPGA prototypes.<\/p><p style=\"color:#555;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 24px 0;\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock\" style=\"color:#B3A369;margin-right:6px;\"><\/i>TR 11:00\u201313:45 \u00a0|\u00a0 Van Leer C449 \u00a0|\u00a0 Instructor of Record<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24c001d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"24c001d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de05f8f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"de05f8f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e382941 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e382941\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;color:#B3A369;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 14px 0;\">SPRING 2026<\/p><h2 style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 8px 0;\">ECE 2020: Fundamentals of Digital Systems Design<\/h2><p style=\"color:#666;font-size:15px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\">Georgia Institute of Technology, School of ECE<\/p><p style=\"color:#444;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;margin:0 0 20px 0;\">This course introduces the many levels of abstraction that enable today\u2019s digital systems, from switches and transistors to combinational logic, sequential circuits, finite state machines, memory, and processor architecture. Students learn to transform specifications into implementations at each design layer.<\/p><p style=\"color:#555;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 24px 0;\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock\" style=\"color:#B3A369;margin-right:6px;\"><\/i>MW 11:00\u201312:15 PM \u00a0|\u00a0 Van Leer C241 \u00a0|\u00a0 Instructor of Record<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Syllabus_ECE2020_SP26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#003057;color:#fff;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;padding:12px 28px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;\">View Syllabus (PDF)<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9c9f1a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d9c9f1a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e97043 elementor-widget 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Electronics<\/a><span style=\"color:#B3A369;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;margin-left:8px;\">\u2022 Instructor of Record<\/span><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Summer 2022<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/summer-2022-ece-3043-electronic-and-analog-electronic-circuits\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">ECE 3741 \u2013 Instrumentation and Electronics Laboratory<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Fall 2022<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/fall-2022-ece-3741-experiments-in-analog-electronics\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">ECE 3550 \u2013 Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Fall 2021<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/fall-2021-ece-3550-feedback-control-of-dynamic-systems\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">ECE 3550 \u2013 Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Fall 2020<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/fall-2020-meng-431l-fluid-and-thermal-systems-laboratory\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">MENG 431L \u2013 Fluid and Thermal Systems Laboratory<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">New Mexico Tech<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Fall 2020<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/fall-2020-meng-210l-sophomore-design-and-measurement-laboratory\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">MENG 210L \u2013 Sophomore Design and Measurement Laboratory<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">New Mexico Tech<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">Spring 2019<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/spring-2019-meng-405l-dynamics-and-control-systems-laboratory\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">MENG 405L \u2013 Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">New Mexico Tech<\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"display:flex;align-items:baseline;padding:18px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #e8e8e8;gap:24px;border-bottom:none;\"><span style=\"flex:0 0 160px;color:#888;font-size:13px;font-weight:500;\">2008\u20132014<\/span><div style=\"flex:1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/2008-2014-physics-and-chemistry-teacher\/\" style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">Physics and Chemistry Teacher<\/a><br><span style=\"color:#777;font-size:13px;margin-left:4px;\">Togo<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bfb4e51 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bfb4e51\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e985add elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e985add\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Teaching Interests<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f05d3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"6f05d3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(280px,1fr));gap:18px;max-width:1100px;margin:0 auto;\"><div style=\"background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #e0e4ea;border-top:4px solid #B3A369;border-radius:6px;padding:22px 22px 20px;text-align:left;\"><h3 style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:16px;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 10px;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">Core ECE<\/h3><p style=\"color:#555;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;margin:0;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">Digital systems design, circuits and electronics, instrumentation and measurement, feedback control.<\/p><\/div><div style=\"background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #e0e4ea;border-top:4px solid #B3A369;border-radius:6px;padding:22px 22px 20px;text-align:left;\"><h3 style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:16px;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 10px;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">Laboratory &amp; Design<\/h3><p style=\"color:#555;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;margin:0;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">FPGA-based digital design labs, electronics laboratories, and project-based, team-based design courses.<\/p><\/div><div style=\"background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #e0e4ea;border-top:4px solid #B3A369;border-radius:6px;padding:22px 22px 20px;text-align:left;\"><h3 style=\"color:#1a2e4a;font-size:16px;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 10px;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">Graduate Electives<\/h3><p style=\"color:#555;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;margin:0;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;\">Nondestructive evaluation, electromagnetic and terahertz sensing, and machine learning for engineering diagnostics.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f4edc1 e-con-full 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