Juan Ocampo, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, shared takeaways from his spring classes in a Q&A. Ocampo, who joined St. Mary’s in Fall 2016, teaches in the area of mechanical design and specializes in probabilistic fatigue analysis and damage tolerance of aircraft structures. In Spring 2020, he taught “Strength of Materials, Foundations of Practice: Ethics, and Senior Design Project.”
Q: What was your approach in switching to online learning in a short period of time?