Teaching

As coordinator/lecturer

Advanced Processing for Complex Materials (master's ME)

(2023–24, 2024–25)

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of designing robust production processes for industrial applications. It addresses the challenges of validating production designs, mainly when working with materials that exhibit complex behaviors. At the end of the course, the student is able to:

• Explain the differences in various types of steel used in industrial production, considering their properties and applications

• Select materials based on technical specifications to ensure optimal product functionality

• Develop constitutive models to describe material behavior under different conditions accurately

• Design production processes for manufacturing components

• Optimize manufacturing processes by balancing functionality, design constraints, and cost-effectiveness

Design Science (bachelor's IEM)

(2024–25)

Design Science explores the application of IEM methodology using real-life projects. In this respect, Design Science is the bridge between Research and Design Methodology and the IEM Bachelor graduation project. After successful completion of the course, the student is able to:

• Identify the main methods of key IEM research and design topics

• Define typical IEM industrial or societal fields of application

• Formulate possibilities of design science for design and research topics

• Interpret and draw conclusions from expert literature on a typical IEM topic

• Define an adequate Research and Design Plan (RDP) for IEM Bachelor Integration Project

• Explain and defend research and design choices, as proposed in the RDP

• Provide an on-level reporting and presentation in English

Design and Construction for IEM (bachelor's IEM (PTL))

(2024–25)

Designing technical devices (for example, cars, airplanes, robots, and household appliances) is a challenging discipline. This course unit has an integrative character, as many aspects are used in the design process. Such aspects can be project management, market analysis, user analysis, a program of needs and desires, pricing, developing concepts, choices of materials, product layout, cost price, engineering, drawing, reporting, and presenting. After successful completion of the course, the student is able to:

• Apply the engineering design process of Pahl & Beitz

• Apply specific design aspects that support the engineering design process, such as Function Structure, House of Quality, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Design for Manufacturability, and Design for Assembly

• Understand and produce technical drawings (using SolidWorks)

• Carry out basic mechanical calculations on simple parts by hand

• Carry out more thorough mechanical calculations on complex parts using the Finite Element Method

Mechanical Craftsmanship (bachelor's IEM (PTL))

(2024–25)

The main idea of the course unit is to add realism to the classroom. This objective is achieved via an interpretation of a technical drawing. Then, drawing a redesigned artefact based on requirements and crafting a potential solution with rapid prototyping techniques is mandatory. The course also requires implementing methods and tools for testing and evaluating the proposed solution. The students are provided with adequate tools, teaching assistantship support, and active learning classrooms. At the end of the course, the student is able to:

• Interpret requirements and instructions connected to technical products and processes

• Produce new technical drawings of a product or process based on the technical requirements of stakeholders

• Craft a complex and physical artifact using rapid prototyping techniques

• Test and evaluate a crafted physical artifact

Mechanics for IEM (bachelor's IEM)

(2021–22)

The general aim of the course is to give an introduction to the terms and methods used in elementary statics and strength of materials, a rigorous treatment of the mechanical relations that govern the primary loading situations in the field of mechanical and civil engineering (uniaxial tension, bending, torsion and buckling) and to solve simple and statically indeterminate boundary value problems.

• The subjects covered in statics are force vectors, force equilibrium, force resultants, equilibrium of a rigid body, analysis of trusses, internal forces, and friction, and

• the subjects covered in the strength of materials are stress, strain, mechanical properties, axial load, torsion, bending, superposition principle, stress and strain transformations, and buckling. This course gives students an understanding of the stability, stiffness, and strength of mechanical constructions.

Upon completion of the course, the student is able to:

• Draw free-body diagrams of structures as a whole and subsections of structures.

• Relate applied forces and moments to displacements and rotations.

• Calculate the internal forces of rigid and supported constructions at their static equilibrium state.

• Calculate displacements of deformable members in statically indeterminate boundary value problems that involve the constitutive relations of the material.

Simulation of Nanoscale Materials Using Molecular Dynamics (masterclass)

(2011: I gave this 6-hour masterclass at the 10th National Student Congress of Iranian Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz, Iran.)

This masterclass provides an in-depth understanding of the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique for studying various mechanical behaviors and physical properties and relevant phenomena of materials at the atomic scale.

At the end of this class, the student is able to:

• Understand the core principles and mathematical frameworks underlying MD

• Master the process of setting up MD simulations by

  1. defining initial conditions, atomic interactions, and force fields, and

  2. selecting appropriate time steps and simulation parameters.

• Analyze the mechanical behavior of materials at the atomic level

• Explore the physical properties of materials, such as thermal properties

• Investigate material phenomena by exploring phenomena observable at the atomic level, such as diffusion and phase transitions.

• Apply MD simulations to real-world material problems

• Understand the limitations and challenges of MD simulations

As teaching assistant/grader

• "Finite element modelling for advanced processing" (University of Groningen, 2020)

• "Multiscale Contact Mechanics and Tribology" (University of Groningen, 2015–2020)

• "Transport Phenomena" & "Mechanical Properties of Materials II" (Shiraz University, 2006–2008)