Teaching Experience

Primary Instructor: Prof. Abdolreza Ohadi Hamedani

• Guided graduate M.Sc. and Ph.D. students through boundary value problems for vibrating strings, bars, shafts, Euler-Bernoulli/Timoshenko beams, and thin plates.
• Mentored students in variational principles, Ritz and Galerkin discretization techniques, and exact modal expansion theorems for continuous media.

Instructors: Dr. Afshin Taghvaeipour & Dr. Hamed Ghaffarirad

• Conducted recitation lectures covering single-DOF and multi-DOF free, harmonic, and transient forced responses under viscous and structural damping.
• Designed MATLAB simulation assignments on modal matrix orthogonality, coordinate decoupling, vibration isolation, and frequency response function (FRF) analysis.

Instructor: Dr. Afshin Taghvaeipour

• Instructed undergraduate engineering students on 2D and 3D particle and rigid-body kinematics in rotating reference frames.
• Led tutorials on Newton-Euler equations of motion, work-energy formulations, impulse-momentum theorems, and numerical phase-space trajectory plotting.

Instructor: Dr. Hamed Ghaffarirad

• Supervised computational tutorials on Laplace-domain transfer functions, state-space representations, and Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion.
• Instructed Evans root-locus method, Bode/Nyquist frequency-domain stability margins, and PID feedback compensator design in MATLAB/Simulink.

Instructor: Dr. Afshin Taghvaeipour

• Mentored students in velocity and acceleration graphical/vector polygon analysis, cam-follower kinematics, and epicyclic planetary gear trains.
• Instructed multi-body computer modeling, dynamic force balancing, and flywheel sizing using the MSC ADAMS software suite.

Instructor: Dr. Afshin Taghvaeipour

• Assisted graduate students in spatial rotation parameterizations (Euler angles, Euler parameters, quaternions), kinematic loop constraint equations, and D’Alembert-Lagrange variational equations.
• Guided numerical integration of constrained differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) and Baumgarte constraint stabilization in MATLAB.

Instructor: Dr. Afshin Taghvaeipour

• Instructed first-year engineering students on structured algorithmic programming, matrix computations, root-finding methods, and numerical ODE solvers (ode45, ode15s).
• Supervised computational term projects modeling kinematic mechanisms and energy conversion cycles.

Instructor: Prof. Farzad Ebrahimi

• Conducted recitations on static yield criteria (von Mises, Tresca), fatigue failure theories under fluctuating stress states (Goodman, Gerber diagrams), and stress concentration factors.
• Evaluated machine design term projects covering rolling contact bearings, power transmission shafts, bolted/welded joints, and spur/helical gears per ASME standards.