Teaching | Yiqi (Verna) Tian

As Instructor

University of Pittsburgh undergraduate lecture

Spring 2024 (41 students, 39 responses, 95% response rate)
- Overall teaching effectiveness: 4.33 / 5 (mode 5)
- Instructor enthusiasm: 4.72 / 5 (mode 5)
- Course organization: 4.67 / 5 (mode 5)
- Accessibility & support: 4.69 / 5 (mode 5)
- Comments from students:
  - “Yiqi is excellent! She is so enthusiastic about teaching the course and helping students. She posts great notes that are always really easy to understand.”
  - “Balanced lecture material with examples, provided helpful practice exams and extra review sessions, and was always available for help.”
  - “I really disliked statistics in high school, but now I actually really like it. It was so obvious how much you cared about the class and our success.”
  - “Great lectures and explained so well. She is an amazing instructor overall and has a knack for presenting topics at a level we can understand.”
Spring 2023 (36 students, 25 responses, 69% response rate)
- Overall teaching effectiveness: 3.72 / 5 (mode 4)
- Instructor enthusiasm: 3.96 / 5 (mode 4)
- Course organization: 4.28 / 5 (mode 5)
- Accessibility & support: 4.08 / 5 (mode 4)
- Comments from students:
  - “The well-organized notes and structured review sessions ensured that exam topics were accurately covered.”
  - “The thorough examples and clear annotations in the lecture slides were crucial to understanding the material.”

IE 1080 - Supply Chain Analysis, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2023
IE 2100 - Supply Chain Analysis, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2022 and Fall 2020
IE 2001 - Operations Research, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2022
IE 1055/2055 - Facility Layout and Material Handling, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2021
ENGR 0021 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2021 and Summer 2023
IE 1071 - Statistical Testing and Regression, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2020