BEHNAM TAMIMI

TEACHING

Teaching Qualifications And Experience

Courses Taught

  • Power Systems Operation and Markets; 3rd/4th year undergrad course; University of Waterloo; 75 students. Topics include Economic load dispatch, Kuhn-Tucker conditions of optimality, unit commitment, coordination, power-flow analysis, simulation, power pools and electricity markets - models and design, calculation of reliability indices, deregulation and reliability, primary and secondary frequency control, steady-state stability.

  • Introduction to Operations Research; 3rd/4th year undergrad course; University of Tehran; 60 students. Topics include Characterizations of optimal solutions and efficient algorithms for, mainly linear, optimization problems.

  • Power Systems: Basics, Modeling and Stability Analysis; 4th year undergrad course; KNT University; 30 students. Topics include basic definitions and concepts associated with short circuit, power flow and stability analysis, and modeling system components (generators, transformers, transmission lines, cables, loads, and FACTS controllers).

Teaching-related Professional Development; Certified by Waterloo's Centre for Teaching Excellence

  • CTE501: How Students Learn

  • CTE502: Motivating Students

  • CTE503: Assessing Learning

  • CTE504: Interactive Teaching

  • CTE505: Introduction to Course Design

Several sessions of private teaching and TA classes in the fields of Power System Analysis, Electric Machines and Advanced Mathematics.