I gave lectures and practical work on engineering drawing and mechanism study at a master level at Ecole Navale for 25 hours per year during 4 years.

The goal of this course was to teach the basics of engineering drawing (visible and hidden outlines, multi-view projections, …) as well as the vocabulary and theuse of the main mechanical parts. With a set of technical drawings more and more complex, (with real technical drawings present onboard the Navy vessels), the students must “extract” and draw different parts from the drawings.
As a teacher, I helped them individually to understand the drawings. When a new standard mechanical part was found, I described it to the whole class and explained its purpose.

As part of the practical works in the measurement technique course for the master degree at Ecole Navale, I taught during 2 years (24 hours per year) how to calibrate a force sensor. A load cell had to be calibrated to assess the different errors (hysteresis, precision and linearity errors). The aim of this practical work was also an active exercise of Excel or Matlab with input of complex formulas and handling large database.

I taught different courses in the field of naval engineering:

Ship structure during 2 years. The ship structure course provided students with the basics of structural design and calculations (Young Modulus, bending and shear stress, beam diagrams…) and the application on ships. My previous experience as a naval engineer in ship structure allowed me to contribute ideas and opinions as the course evolved.
During two years, I gave a practical work on Excel. I also proposed new topics where ship stability and ship structure were linked.

Sailing yacht during 3 years. The lecture on sailing yacht engineering was an application of all the previous courses that the Master students learned during the semester. I created and presented a 5-hour lecture and a practical work. The idea was to demonstrate how the previous courses they had (stability, lifting profiles, bluff bodies, seakeeping,…) could be applied to sailing yachts. The practical work was to create a simple Velocity Prediction Program to estimate the performance of a one design class J/80 sailing yacht. The course was very much appreciated. It helped them to understand some physical concepts they did not fully understand in the previous courses.

During the course of aerodynamics for the Master at EPFL, I gave a 2-hour lecture during 2 years on the basics of potential flow to the students. I introduced the concept of potential and stream functions, as well as the superposition principle using sources and sinks.

During 2 years at EPFL, I actively participated at the presentation of our work to children from the age of 8 to 16. The idea was to demonstrate how fluid mechanics is everywhere and how we can visualise them in a fun way. For example by letting them play with vortex cannons!

I gave practical work during 4 years (24 hours) and tutorials during 2 years (20 hours) at Ecole Navale. The ship stability course provides cadets (master students) with the main principles of ship intact stability (buoyancy,
righting moment, metacentric height…), the free surface effect and stability curves and tables.

In conjunction with the lecturing professor, I was responsible for the tutorials and the practical work.During the practical work on stability, the students used an instrumented simple shape hull in a basin to study the influence of the position of the gravity centre and to compare the experimental results with their calculations. I reorganised the practical work and rewrote the guidelines  to be more job-oriented.

For more than 10 years, I have had the opportunity to supervise many projects at the bachelor and master levels. I proposed various subjects in mechanics, fluid dynamics, electronics, code development… At EPFL, I proposed and supervised an original multi-year long project on the physics of a single-oar sculling, known as godille in Brittany.

I designed and gave a 2-hour introductory lectures during 2 years on unsteady aerodynamics at EPFL as part of the Aerodynamics course given by Pr. Mulleners.