Professor Gangadhara Prusty is a Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Australia and is the Director of ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC). He pioneered the development of the “Adaptive Mechanics Network” which is currently being used by a very large number of students and academics in several universities around the world.
In recognition of his teaching developments, Professor Prusty has received multiple teaching excellence awards over time, including the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation, UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards, Australian Awards for Teaching, and the Australian Council of Engineering Deans Award for Engineering Education Excellence.
Email [email protected] to enquire if Gangadhara is available to mentor you.
Conditions for mentoring facilitation
- one-on-one mentoring
- 1-2 mentees at any stage
Mentor details
Faculties
- Engineering
Academic level
- Lecturer A
- Lecturer B
Learning and teaching skills
- Student learning
- Learning and teaching curriculum design
- Assessment and feedback
- Peer review of curriculum
- Formative peer observation of teaching
- Convening a course
- Integrating technologies into learning and teaching
- Active learning spaces
- Evaluation
- General teaching methods
Experience developing applications for
- Faculty learning and teaching award
- Faculty learning and teaching grant
- UNSW Award for Teaching
- UNSW Scientia Education Investment Fund Program (SEIF) learning and teaching grant
- National learning and teaching award
- National learning and teaching grant
- UNSW promotion application
Research experience
- Development for an application for a research grant
- Conducting interviews and focus groups
- Establishing a research profile
Mentoring discipline
- Mentoring within own/and across disciplines
General experience
- Deciding on career priorities
- Identifying leadership opportunities in learning and teaching, research and social engagement