David Lau
Lab Instructor Supervisor - Dept Of Electrical And Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Lau is an experienced engineering instructor and lab supervisor with 14 years in academia and industry, focused on scaling high-quality programming and circuits education for large cohorts. At the University of Waterloo he has led teams of instructors and TAs supporting thousands of first-year engineering students, managed a $900K annual budget, and overseen full-stack instructional tooling and containerized deployments for a 650+ user application. His background in ESD compliance at Research In Motion/BlackBerry complements a practical hardware-awareness with software teaching—useful for hands-on labs that bridge circuits and C++ programming. David applies evidence-based pedagogy (Kolb, BOPPPS) to accelerate how quickly students become competent programmers, and has operationalized that vision through study spaces, greeter desks, and collaboration platforms to improve equity and consistency of support. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he combines systems-level instructional design with a knack for improving student belonging and measurable service quality.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Computer Engineering, BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
squished18/marmoset_MME
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:69 PRs, 344 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 2 months
squished18/marmoset_ECE_base
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
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