Teaching Experiences
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Teaching Certificate
Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program, MIT, Summer 2019
• Designing a Course and Constructing a Syllabus
• Planning and Facilitating a Class Session
• Introduction to Research on How People Learn
• Interactive Teaching and Active Learning
• Constructing Effective Problem Sets and Exam Questions
• Teaching Inclusively
• Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
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Instructor and co-instructor
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Economic and Environmental Issues in Materials Selection 3.080 – Online teaching
• Responsible for two modules (multiple sessions), Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT, With Prof. Kirchain
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Advanced LCA Workshop Series – Online teaching
• Responsible for the entire workshops -6h for 30 participants- evaluation score: 9.7/10, American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA)
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Laboratory of Construction Materials
• Undergrad course-responsible for half of the entire course - asphalt and concrete, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, With Prof. Shekarchi
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Construction and Sustainability
• (A developed course for graduate students - responsible for teaching the entire course), School of Civil Engineering, Tabari University, Babol, Iran.
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Invited Lecturer
CEE 325 “Introduction to Sustainable Design”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA
• Carbon footprint analysis
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ENCI 595 “Sustainable Materials”, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
• Introduction to life cycle assessment for civil engineering students
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Operations Management in Construction Program, Aalto University, Finland
• Role of Operations Management in the sustainable development of infrastructure systems.
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3.081 “Industrial Ecology of Materials”, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, USA
• Quantification of urban heat island effect and role of marginal technology selection in the road policymaking.
ENVE 5701-Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, Carleton University, Canada
• How to assess the individual and combined effects of uncertainty and variability in LCA? (03/2019)
• When the consequential and dynamic framework join in the policy-making analysis (03/2019)
GCI 320-Génie Routier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Analyse environnementale du cycle de vie des chaussées au Québec selon le choix des matériaux (04/2016)
• Rôle des incertitudes et des variabilités dans les résultats de l'ACV des chaussées (04/2017)
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Teacher Assistant
Structural Analysis I
• (Undergrad course), 2009-2010, School of Civil Engineering, Tabari University, Babol, Iran,18h
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Mentor
• Catherine Luo, Evaluation of the albedo variations on the sustainability of the built environment in a highly dense neighborhood, B.Sc. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, USA.
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• Enrique Casillas, Simulation of the effect of building dimensions on building energy demand induced by surface reflectivity
B.Sc. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, USA.
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• Yohann Sawaya, Life cycle assessment of concrete and asphalt pavements: Effects of pavement roughness and deflection on car fuel consumption (Undergrad Internship), B.Sc. Student, L'EPF Sceaux, France.
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• Motahareh Rahimi, Sustainable application and design of concrete mixtures in aggressive climates (Graduate project), M.Sc. Student, University of Tehran, Iran.
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