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School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
I am a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. From 2019-2022, I led the BEng (Hons.) Professional Engineering programmes at Aston University's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. In 2022, I was appointed as Associate Dean Education for the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Aston University.
During my time as the Course Director for these programmes, I designed three level 6 BEng Professional Engineering Degree Apprenticeship Programmes (Control/Technical Support Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, and Science Industry Process/Plant Engineer) and added 15 major UK engineering companies inclusing BMW, Fuchs, Alstom, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Collins Aerospace, Babcock, Ibstock, National Grid Gas, and Salts Healthcare to Aston University's Degree Apprenticeships portfolio. I also successfully re-structured the exisitng BEng Professional Engineering top-up programmes in 2020.
In 2020, I also co-led the design and implementation of Aston University’s MSc in Sustainable Engineering. In 2018, I founded and lead Aston University’s Engineering for People Design Challenge in collaboration with the EWB-UK.
The programmes that I have led to design and implement are regarded as examples of best practice of programme design and collaborative industry-academica curriculum design and I have mentored colleagues at Aston University and other HEIs in designing programmes of study that meets the needs of industry.
Prior to joining Aston University, I worked as a Doctoral Researcher and a Graduate Teaching Assisstant and Mentor at the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Social Sciences, and later on as a Teaching Associate at the Management School. I completed my PhD in Renewable Energy Futures at the University of Sheffield in 2017. I did my research in Smart Grids in partnership with Northern Powergrid UK. My project was supported by the LCNF and the EPSRC.
Previously, I did an MSc Degree in Water and Environmental Engineering and annother MSc Degree in Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Surrey. My 1st degree was in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering.
My two main passions are teaching and engineering for a sustainable development, so since 2012, I have combined my two main passions by embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Engineering curriculum of both University of Sheffield and Aston University.
I have had the pleasure of directly working with more than 2000 Engineering students at BEng and MSc levels from different disciplines and different companies over the past decade and I am committed to widening participation and increasing the diversity in HE Engineering Programmes.
PG Cert, Aston University
Award Date: 1 Dec 2019
PhD, University of Sheffield
Award Date: 1 Apr 2018
PG Dip, University of Sheffield
Award Date: 1 Sep 2015
MSc, University of Surrey
Award Date: 1 Oct 2008
MSc, University of Surrey
Award Date: 1 Oct 2006
BSc, Azad University of Tehran
Award Date: 1 May 2005
Member of the Engineering Ethics Advisory Group, Engineering Professors’ Council
Professional Registration Interviewer (PRI), The Institution of Engineering Technology (IET)
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished Conference Paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review