I’m a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT) research group at the University of Toronto. As a teaching assistant and an instructor at the University of Toronto, I have had the opportunity to teach undergraduate and graduate students a variety of subjects ranging from heat and mass transfer to computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. While the courses and students have differed, student evaluations of my teaching have remained consistently excellent, in every case substantially exceeding the average based on any comparative measure. I recently received the University of Toronto’s Teaching Assistant award as a testament to my teaching ability. My main goal is to encourage independent thinking and analytical reasoning to augment their problem-solving skills, thus encouraging them not just to memorize. I prompt them to question at every stage: “why?..how?” and satisfy their curiosity, instead of assuming the instructor is always right. My approach to classroom teaching builds from two principles: involve the students and work methodically. To that end, I make sure to explicitly incorporate questions for the students in my lecture notes. By encouraging students through my questions to help solve the important topical puzzles themselves, Not only can I assist them to stay engaged, but I can also better gauge their understanding of the material in real-time.