Teaching Experiences
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
Instructor and co-instructor
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
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)
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
Construction and Sustainability
• (A developed course for graduate students - responsible for teaching the entire course), School of Civil Engineering, Tabari University, Babol, Iran.
Invited Lecturer
CEE 325 “Introduction to Sustainable Design”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA
• Carbon footprint analysis
ENCI 595 “Sustainable Materials”, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
• Introduction to life cycle assessment for civil engineering students
Operations Management in Construction Program, Aalto University, Finland
• Role of Operations Management in the sustainable development of infrastructure systems.
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)
Teacher Assistant
Structural Analysis I
• (Undergrad course), 2009-2010, School of Civil Engineering, Tabari University, Babol, Iran,18h
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Motahareh Rahimi, Sustainable application and design of concrete mixtures in aggressive climates (Graduate project), M.Sc. Student, University of Tehran, Iran.
