I am a tenured associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota
Mines. I spent my sabbatical leave (2018-2019) at Georgia Tech where I
developed analytical solution algorithms for photoacoutstics of
nanoparticles with application in cancer diagnosis and therapy. For
three years, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Division of Applied
Mathematics at Brown University where I developed high-order numerical
schemes for shock interfacial instabilities (Richtmyer-Meshkov
instabilities), and prior to that a postdoctoral researcher in
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming where I worked on
multigrid discontinuous Galerkin algorithms for computational
aerodynamics. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.A. Sc. in Mechanical
Engineering from University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada). My
undergraduate was in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of
Technology (Tehran, Iran).
I am interested in pedagogy of teaching in particular constructivism,
reflectivism, and optimal conflict (i.e., rigorous teaching that
challenges students but at the same time provides them with sufficient
support). I have taught a large array of classes from sophomore level
all the way to the Ph.D. level courses at both Brown University and South Dakota
Mines. My class sizes have ranged from large classes (80 students on the
undergraduate level) to small classes (7 students at the Ph.D. level). I
have taught the following courses:
Thermodynamics I (ME 211);
Thermodynamics II (ME 312);
Fluid Mechanics (ME 331);
Heat Transfer (ME 313);
Gas Dynamics (ME 402/502);
Advanced Heat Transfer (ME 613);
Advanced Fluid Mechanics (ME 612);
Computational Transport Phenomena (ME 616);
Thermoacoustics (ME 792);
High Performance Discontinuous Galerkin Solvers, APMA 2821G, Spring 2010
(Applied Mathematics, Brown University);
Numerical Ordinary Differential Equations, Undergraduate Short Course,
Summer 2010 (Applied Mathematics, Brown University);