Engineering leadership

Understanding grows
when it is shared.

Beyond building prototypes, Yiming is passionate about helping others understand engineering through clear explanation and hands-on experience.

01 / Approach

Technical knowledge
made accessible.

Through Engineering Society, Yiming developed teaching skills, presentation ability, technical communication and team leadership. The work required more than knowing how a mechanism operates: it required anticipating where understanding might break down and designing a better path through the idea.

Lessons combined visual explanation, physical components and guided experimentation so students could connect theory to observable motion.

01

Teach

Teaching engineering concepts

Breaking mechanisms into understandable relationships of force, motion, constraint and mechanical advantage.

02

Present

Creating educational slides

Structuring technical material with diagrams, examples and a clear progression from principle to application.

03

Record

Instructional videos

Documenting demonstrations so students could revisit processes and the society could build a reusable knowledge archive.

04

Mentor

Supporting student projects

Helping teams define problems, evaluate prototypes, respond to tests and keep ownership of their decisions.

Communication system

Explain with more
than words.

Engineering Society used complementary formats so different learners could engage with the same concept.

01

Technical diagrams

Show component relationships and motion paths at a glance.

02

Physical demonstrators

Make forces, movement and constraints directly observable.

03

Guided challenges

Turn explanation into decisions, tests and practical learning.

04

Documentation

Preserve lessons, methods and outcomes for future sessions.

Teaching archive

Materials and evidence.

Engineering Society mechanisms lesson slideSLIDES / 01

Educational slides
Mechanisms · Session 4

3D-printed mechanism prepared for Yiming's recorded lessonVIDEO / 02

Recorded instructional lesson
Watch on YouTube ↗

Yiming and Engineering Society chairs supporting student teamsMENTORING / 03

Student project support
Egg Drop build session

Leadership principle

Build the prototype.
Then build understanding.

Technical leadership means making good decisions visible, helping a team move forward and giving others the confidence to create.

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