Experience

Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Teaching Assistant for Mechanical Engineering Design II

  • May 2020 - Present

  • Presenting seminar for more than 60 undergraduate students, and provide guidance and feedback to students on design projects in this 3rd-year design course • Presenting seminar for more than 60 undergraduate students, and provide guidance and feedback to students on design projects in this 3rd-year design course



Centre for Design of Advanced Materials

• Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Computational Modelling Leader

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2022

  • Predicting the mechanical response of novel micro/nano scales Ceramics Metal Composites in collaboration with Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC), USA Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Uppsala University in Sweden, and the University of Seville in Spain, by implementing a popular open-source (LGPLv3) high-level Python interface computing platform to provide guidance for material refinement. The results so far have been published in the 2nd best journal about ceramics and composites • Collaborating with Compute Canada for providing Advanced Research Computing (ARC) systems in order to solve large-scale problems with real dimension (Using Graham clusters with a total of 42,000 cores and 1,200 nodes of different types) • Organizing and leading a trip with teams of four researchers to the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron facility to perform high-energy micro X-ray tomography on different types of bulk ceramics and polymeric foams to image and reconstruct the microstructures and crack networks • Testing samples mechanically, using quasi-static loading, split-Hopkinson pressure bar, impact loading, and ballistic impact • Collecting data using ultra-high-speed photography and digital image correlation in order to study brittle failure Show less



University of Alberta Engineering Career Connections

• Canada
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant for Engineering Mechanics II

  • Dec 2018 - Apr 2019

  • Presenting seminar for more than 45 undergraduate students • Presenting seminar for more than 45 undergraduate students



Iowa State University - College of Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instructor for Mechanics of Material Laboratory

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Teaching undergraduate students to experimentally determined the mechanical properties of selected engineering materials, and using strain measuring devices

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Studied melt dispersion mechanism of energetic reactions of aluminum nano-particles by using virtual melting as a new mechanism of phase transformation, employing a C++ open-source finite element software library, deal II. The project was under the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Iowa State University (Schafer 2050 Challenge Professorship)

• Teaching Assistant for Finite Element Method course

  • Jan 2016 - May 2016

  • Presenting seminar and helping Master’s students on design projects using COMSOL Multiphysics



Firooz Pooya Co.

• Tehran, Iran

• Director of R&D Group

  • Sep 2012 - Jul 2015

  • Designed and consulted of safety and ventilation systems of roads and urban tunnels • Preparation and delivery of project interim and reports • Provided daily, weekly, and monthly monitoring reports and related graphs • Directed technical and operational team to achieve contractual goals within deadlines and costs • Optimized work tasks of the project team and prepared progress and financial/cost reports • Made a tracking system to follow up construction progress and required next action • Followed up required Safety, Health, and Environmental standards with related divisions Show less



Iran's National Elites Foundation . . . بنیاد ملی نخبگان

• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Selected Research Assistant

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  • Designed, analyzed, and optimized settling chambers in supersonic wind tunnels by using FE commercial software, Abaqus • Designed, analyzed, and optimized settling chambers in supersonic wind tunnels by using FE commercial software, Abaqus



Isfahan University of Technology

• Iran
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Jan 2013

  • Developed an analytical model for thermal vibration analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes considering small-scale effects, by employing WOLFRAM MATHEMATICA • Developed an analytical model for thermal vibration analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes considering small-scale effects, by employing WOLFRAM MATHEMATICA