Ewan H

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering (First Class Honours)

Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Awarded prizes at GCSE for top grades in physics and design technology AS: Geology (A) A2: Maths(A*), Physics(A*), Chemistry (A*), Further Maths(A) GCSE: 8A*s 5As

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Love Learning Tutors

Common Entrance: 11+, 13+

GCSE: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, German

A-Level: Further Maths, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Front of House Staff - Hospitality

I developed people skills during my role as front of house where I tended bar and waited tables. I soothed dissatisfied customers. I learned organisation skills as I had to juggle multiple responsibilities simultaneously.

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Outside of academia I love cold water swimming, long distance running and weight training (they’re good for your brain!). I am also a creative person who loves to create expressive artworks with pastels and watercolours. I enjoy composing music as I find it very therapeutic to sing and play the ukulele. I am formally trained in saxophone and double bass but I enjoy teaching myself piano and bass guitar too. In my free time I enjoy science podcasts on topics such as bioinspired AI and evolutionary biology. I love learning so much that I’m planning to undertake a PhD in Artificial Intelligence for the automation of mechanical design. I also like to combine my love of music with AI and computer science to visualise and generate music algorithmically. I speak German to an intermediate level. Mainly technical language for an engineering and science context as I studied technical German at university for a year abroad learning engineering at the place
 

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I am an enthusiastic learner and love to share what I’ve learned with anyone who will listen! I have recently graduated with a first-class master’s degree from Imperial College London which has endowed me with an exhaustive knowledge of the fundamentals of maths and science. My teaching style is one of patience and warmth. My success in life has been fuelled by interest, so I know it is vital to keep students comfortable and engaged before any learning can happen. To me the best approach to teaching is one tailored to each individual student, but I always try to emphasise my enjoyment of the material. I remark on how nice a tricky maths problem is which intrigues my more long-standing students to want to crack it. For younger students I've found that keeping them comfortable but stimulated is key, as attention can be a scarcer resource in this case. My coding lessons are kept creative and interactive with a heavy visual component to keep them engaged. I’m happy to go off syllabus in this way, but I am very familiar with teaching on syllabus too. For older students, I target teaching to weak areas, identify gaps in knowledge and fill them in from first principals. I focus on doing problem sheets to reinforce existing knowledge and highlight weak points for targeted tuition. Applying knowledge in these small test cases is key. I like to put the material in context; for example to show students that quadratic equations aren’t bland and pointless, instead they are an elegant way to predict the path of a cannon ball in flight or a space craft.